Steven Morrissey Quotes

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

Humans are not really very humane.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about.

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!

You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

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.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

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 still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion - it’s more romantic than sexual.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round

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

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

I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

You are a work of art.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

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'.

I'm not very good at being dull.

They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).