Quotes by Morrissey

The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

Cats will be cats.

I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life cant be all beer and skittles.

Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be.

Its so easy to laughIts so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind

You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?

Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they dont after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and its 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.

Thats why I do this music business thing, its communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

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

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

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

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

Age shouldnt affect you. Its just like the size of your shoes - they dont determine how you live your life! Youre either marvellous or youre boring, regardless of your age.

Whats the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadnt.

If you travel to Germany, its still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The dazzling royals have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

I dont want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.