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

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.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.