I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.