Steven Morrissey Quotes & Sayings

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is. — Steven Morrissey

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

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in! — Steven Morrissey

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'. — Steven Morrissey

(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm ... You're nodding, you know what I mean. — Steven Morrissey

We Hate William and Kate — Steven Morrissey

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey — Steven Morrissey

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person. — Steven Morrissey

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something. — Steven Morrissey

I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun. — Steven Morrissey

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England — Steven Morrissey

It takes strength to be gentle and kind. — Steven Morrissey

I don't dream about anyone - except myself — Steven Morrissey

The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life. — Steven Morrissey

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money — Steven Morrissey

I'd rather produce art than become art. — Steven Morrissey

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create. — Steven Morrissey

I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside. — 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. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother. — Steven Morrissey

I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane. — Steven Morrissey

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 — Steven Morrissey

Most people keep their brains between their legs — Steven Morrissey

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody. — Steven Morrissey

Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate. — Steven Morrissey

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

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother? — Steven Morrissey

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. — Steven Morrissey

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention! — Steven Morrissey

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual ... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many. — Steven Morrissey

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all. — Steven Morrissey

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper. — Steven Morrissey

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

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you — Steven Morrissey

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does. — Steven Morrissey

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 — Steven Morrissey

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem. — Steven Morrissey

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success. — Steven Morrissey

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. — Steven Morrissey

Life is very long, when you're lonely — Steven Morrissey

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! — Steven Morrissey

Humans are not really very humane. — Steven Morrissey

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face? — Steven Morrissey

Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need — Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt ... — Steven Morrissey

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to. — Steven Morrissey

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs. — Steven Morrissey

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag. — Steven Morrissey

He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away. — Steven Morrissey

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society. — Steven Morrissey

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed. — Steven Morrissey

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever. — Steven Morrissey

Robert Smith is a whingebag. — Steven Morrissey

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award. — Steven Morrissey

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke. — Steven Morrissey

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno ... — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living — Steven Morrissey

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry. — Steven Morrissey

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

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason ... She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. — Steven Morrissey

I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough. — Steven Morrissey

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle. — Steven Morrissey

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass. — Steven Morrissey

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go? — Steven Morrissey

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

Finally, I can get on with someone — Steven Morrissey

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

I'm not very good at being dull. — Steven Morrissey

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life). — Steven Morrissey

A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began — Steven Morrissey

I lie a lot - it's really useful. — Steven Morrissey

These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love. — Steven Morrissey

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

GQ: "Who'll be the first of the Smiths to die?" M: "Me. I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths. — Steven Morrissey

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet. — Steven Morrissey

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something. — Steven Morrissey

There is no such thing in life as normal — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

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

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. — Steven Morrissey

I find Christmas very difficult — Steven Morrissey

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face. — Steven Morrissey

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. — Steven Morrissey

You are a work of art. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey

Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again. — Steven Morrissey

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. — Steven Morrissey