Steven Morrissey

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

— Steven Morrissey

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

— Steven Morrissey

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

— Steven Morrissey

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

— Steven Morrissey

It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have…

— Steven Morrissey

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

— Steven Morrissey

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.

— Steven Morrissey

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

— Steven Morrissey

But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love.…

— Steven Morrissey

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always…

— Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...

— Steven Morrissey

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

— Steven Morrissey

Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for…

— Steven Morrissey

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods…

— Steven Morrissey

I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign…

— Steven Morrissey

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason…

— Steven Morrissey

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty.…

— Steven Morrissey

The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even…

— Steven Morrissey

Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’),…

— Steven Morrissey

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer…

— Steven Morrissey

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

— Steven Morrissey

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back…

— Steven Morrissey

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried'…

— Steven Morrissey

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

— Steven Morrissey

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times…

— Steven Morrissey

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

— Steven Morrissey

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

— Steven Morrissey

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

— Steven Morrissey

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the…

— Steven Morrissey

I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion -…

— Steven Morrissey

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my…

— Steven Morrissey

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from…

— Steven Morrissey

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to…

— Steven Morrissey

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

— Steven Morrissey

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of…

— Steven Morrissey

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

— Steven Morrissey

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP…

— Steven Morrissey

He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go…

— Steven Morrissey

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

— Steven Morrissey