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

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.

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.

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

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

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

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.