Quotes By Steven Patrick Morrissey

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

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.