Steven Morrissey Quotes

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.

I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.

I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion - it’s more romantic than sexual.

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

You are a work of art.

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around ...can you blame us?!

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last