The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

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.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began