Morrissey

“It's so shameful of me: I like you.”

“I don't know what I am.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.It only hurts because it's true.”

“I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.”

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”

“As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.”

“I hated the royal wedding.”

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

“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.”

“Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.”

“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.”

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

“I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.”

“Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.”

“The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.”

“Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.”

“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”

“The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.”