Quotes from Steven Morrissey

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

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

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

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

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

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

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.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

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

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

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends

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.