There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

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.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

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've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.