Steven Morrissey Quotes - Page 11

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

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.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

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

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

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.

I'd love to...but only with you.

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around ...can you blame us?!

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

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.

I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

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

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.