My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.