Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 hated the royal wedding.

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.

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

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

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.

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.

Pop music has progressed.

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 have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.