Steven Morrissey Quotes

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

Humans are not really very humane.

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

America is not the world.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.