Steven Morrissey Quotes

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.

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.

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

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

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

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

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

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

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

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

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.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

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.

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

[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.

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

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

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.

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

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

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

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

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

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.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

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.

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

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Whenever I’d over­hear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of say­ing the word ‘unbear­able’), I under­stood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.

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

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

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

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

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

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

I don't even know if I exist offstage.