I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

He, who don’t know the Almighty God don’t know what He knows for what he knows, knows the Almighty God as the Supreme God!

Hardships are hills of mountains, which must be overcome for the highest accomplishments.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

It's okay to feel the need for protection if there is a real external threat. But to feel protective from the inside, it's a kind of jail: you get so protective that you cannot get out of the box.