What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

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

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.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.