Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

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

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

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.

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.

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

I don't know what I am.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.