Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

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.

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.

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

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

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

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.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

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

Often I feel I say too much.

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.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

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 know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

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

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

You are bound to pick up influences.

Reggae is vile.

I hated the royal wedding.