Steven Morrissey Quotes

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

Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

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

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.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.

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

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

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

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

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.

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.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

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

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.

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

I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you're quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life's many nasty tricks.

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

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

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

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about ...

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

Most people keep their brains between their legs

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

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

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

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason ... She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is making me sad again. But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life.. Yes, you're older now and you're a clever swine. But they were the only ones who ever stood by you

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

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

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

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.

Life is very long, when you're lonely

I'm not very good at being dull.

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

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

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 have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know ... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm ... You're nodding, you know what I mean.

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

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

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

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

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

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

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

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

Humans are not really very humane.

These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

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

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.

Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.

Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

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

We Hate William and Kate

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

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