Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

I hated the royal wedding.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

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.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

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

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.

Pop music has progressed.

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

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

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

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

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.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

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

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.

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

Often I feel I say too much.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

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

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.'