Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

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.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.

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

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

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

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

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

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

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

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

I feel undefinable actually.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

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.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

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

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

I hated the royal wedding.

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

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

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.