The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

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.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.