Steven Morrissey
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.Collection: Endurance
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.Collection: Artist
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.Collection: Ashes
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.Collection: Thinking
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.Collection: Memorable
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.Collection: Memorable
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.Collection: Helping
With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.Collection: Memorable
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.Collection: Music
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?Collection: Mistake
I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.Collection: Memorable
Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.Collection: Unsaid
I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.Collection: Memorable
The heart has a heart of its own.Collection: Heart
My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.Collection: Someday
Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.Collection: Memorable
It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).Collection: Forever
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.Collection: Memorable
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.Collection: People
Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.Collection: Music
There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.Collection: Book
Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.Collection: Eye
I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.Collection: Memorable
I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.Collection: Hated
I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?Collection: Believe
I'm not very good at being dull.Collection: Memorable
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.Collection: May
There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.Collection: People
I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.Collection: Fun
Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.Collection: Memorable
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.Collection: Girl
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.Collection: Memorable
And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway stationCollection: Self
I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.Collection: Humans
Humans are not really very humane.Collection: Humane
I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.Collection: Smell
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.Collection: Thinking
All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.Collection: Girl
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?Collection: Diaries
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.Collection: Heaven
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.Collection: Important
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 youCollection: Song
Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.Collection: Kings
In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?Collection: Eye
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: Memorable
I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.Collection: Beautiful
America is not the world.Collection: America