I hated the royal wedding.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

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.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.

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 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 don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.