Steven Morrissey Quotations | Page 3

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.

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

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

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

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

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

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

Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

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

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

... 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...

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

He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

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

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.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

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

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.

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

GQ: "Who'll be the first of the Smiths to die?" M: "Me. I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

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

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

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.

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

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

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

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

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

I'm not very good at being dull.

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

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...

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is making me sad again. But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life.. Yes, you're older now and you're a clever swine. But they were the only ones who ever stood by you

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

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.

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

Most people keep their brains between their legs

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

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

I still prefer horses to human beings.

I hated the royal wedding.

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.

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

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey

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

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.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

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 cursed with the gift of foresight.

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

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

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

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

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.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

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

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.

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

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

I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.

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.

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

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

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

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

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 normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.