Steven Morrissey Memorable Quotations

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

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.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

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

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

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

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

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

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

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.

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

[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.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

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.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

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

I'm not very good at being dull.

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

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

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

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

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.