Quotes from Morrissey

The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.

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

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

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

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.

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.

You are bound to pick up influences.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

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

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

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

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

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