Steven Morrissey Quotes

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

The heart has a heart of its own.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

You are bound to pick up influences.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.

We Hate William and Kate

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you

In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?

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.

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.

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.

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

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.

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

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

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

You say: 'Oh, please forgive' You say: 'Oh, live and let live.' But sorry doesn't help us. Sorry will not save us. Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). Sorry doesn't help us. Sorry won't protect us. Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends

Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.