I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.

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

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

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.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

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

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

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

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

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.

The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

If I don't love myself, I won't survive.

I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can’t go down to zero. It can.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.