Steven Morrissey Quotes

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

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.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

Nature is a language - can't you read?

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

I hated the royal wedding.

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.

There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

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

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China, and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

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

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.