Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

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.

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.