Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 hated the royal wedding.

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

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

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.

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

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

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.

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

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