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"[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something."
"I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires."
"I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."
"Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan."
"There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die."
"I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged."
"With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals."
"They are very tame to me. God bless Noel, I'm sure he'll always have a spot on 'Bob's Full House', but I search for something with more bite and rage."
"You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you."
"Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me."
"Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around ...can you blame us?!"
"The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin."
"You say: 'Oh, please forgive' You say: 'Oh, live and let live.' But sorry doesn't help us. Sorry will not save us. Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). Sorry doesn't help us. Sorry won't protect us. Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong."
"You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked."
"When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!"
"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."
"Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand."
"Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet."
"As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers."
"I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper."