I don’t necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn’t mean you have to blurt everything out all the time. – Morrissey
That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. – Morrissey
With the issue of immigration, it’s very difficult because, although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears. – Morrissey
I’m not an anarchist, but I believe that people don’t want the royal family – the so-called royal family. – Morrissey
I’ve only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired. – Morrissey
I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. – Morrissey
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. – Morrissey
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. – Morrissey
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. – Morrissey
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. – Morrissey
Although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. – Morrissey
I think there are unseen powers who don’t want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas. – Morrissey
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. – Morrissey
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. – Morrissey
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve? – Morrissey
We’re all lonely, but I’d rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that’s why people kill themselves, really. – Morrissey
When you’re younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it’s not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself. – Morrissey
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it’s not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It’s because of Beyonce’s handbags. – Morrissey