Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
— Morrissey
Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
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.
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.
Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?
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.
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.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
I still prefer horses to human beings.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.
I don't even know if I exist offstage.
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.
British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.
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.
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
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.
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.
There has to reach a point where you've said enough.
Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
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.
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
My talents do not lie in DIY.
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.
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.
Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.
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.
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.
I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
Killing a stag is like killing a child.
I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.
I hated the royal wedding.
The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.
The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.
Often I feel I say too much.
