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.

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 word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.