Steven Morrissey Quotes
"You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that."
- Steven Morrissey
"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Death, Life, Bed, Lying)
"The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: 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."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Word)
"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."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Music, Time, People, Parents)
"Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Death, Hair)
"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Music)
"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Living)
"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Life, Love)
"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: People, Artists)
"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."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: 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'."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Age, Now, Sense)
"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."
- Steven Morrissey
(Related: Business, Music, People, Communication, Extreme)