Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

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 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.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

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

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

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

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

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 don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

I swim when I can but I don't work out.

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

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