Steven Morrissey Quotes - Page 2

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

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

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.

Humans are not really very humane.

I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

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.

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

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.

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.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

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.

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 you

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

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.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

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.

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?