Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.