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 think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

Whenever I’d over­hear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of say­ing the word ‘unbear­able’), I under­stood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.