Quotes from Morrissey

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

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

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!

I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.

Life is a pigsty.

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

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

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. I find it very sad.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

I hated the royal wedding.

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Pop music has progressed.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

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.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

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 think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.