Steven Morrissey Quotes

They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about.

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.