Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotations

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

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

There's no such thing as good news in America.

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

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

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

I swim when I can but I don't work out.

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

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

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?

The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

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

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.