Di Morrissey Quotes

And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about.

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

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.

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

I don't mind if you forget me.Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.

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

God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care!

I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.

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.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

Burn down the discoHang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly playIt says nothing to me about my life

There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die.

Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.

When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!

Hold on to your friends.Resist - or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends

Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?

Life is a pigsty.

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!

Some girls are bigger than others.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.