Quotes by Steven Morrissey

• Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
• You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
• When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
• The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
• That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
• My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
• Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
• I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
• I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.
• I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
• Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
• Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
• Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.