Steven Morrissey People Quotations

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

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

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

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

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

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

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

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.

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.

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

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.

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

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

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

Whenever I’d over­hear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of say­ing the word ‘unbear­able’), I under­stood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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'.

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.