Morrissey
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.Collection: Women
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Patriotism
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.Collection: Travel
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Age
I hated the royal wedding.Collection: Wedding
The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Imagination
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.Collection: Death
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.Collection: Communication
I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
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.
Reggae is vile.
Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.
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.
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.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
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.
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.
England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
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.
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
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.
The Queen is the ultimate dictator.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.
It's always nice to receive a compliment.
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.
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 think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.
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.
There's no such thing as good news in America.
If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.
Killing a stag is like killing a child.
I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
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.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.
All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.
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.