"It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed)."
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Steven Morrissey quotes (page 4 of 15)
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"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."
"The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music."
"I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard."
"Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't 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."
"In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?"
"I am attracted to humans. But, of course... not many."
"You are bound to pick up influences."
"No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher."
"I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family."
"I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone."
"Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many."
"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."
"Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you."
"With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side."
"Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions."
"Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll."
"Well, I am an extremely beautiful person."
"I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long."
"It's so tedious that everyone must be defined."