Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

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.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

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

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

I hated the royal wedding.

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

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.

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

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

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

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.

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

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed 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.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

Pop music has progressed.

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

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

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

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

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

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

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.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

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

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.

Often I feel I say too much.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.