I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

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

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

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.