Steven Morrissey Quotes - Page 8

You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about.

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

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

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

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.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

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.