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

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

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.

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

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

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.