Quotes from Morrissey

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

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

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

There's no such thing as good news in America.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

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.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

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

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

Reggae is vile.