I do think it’s possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
I’ve never intended to be controversial but it’s very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
Animals are nicer than humans and they’re conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?
Artists aren’t really people. And I’m actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
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.
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
I still prefer horses to human beings.
In my life why do I smile at people I’d rather kick in the eye?
I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that’s saying something for a vegetarian.
I left my fingerprints somewhere – that’s good enough. I am my own person – that’s good enough. I stand my ground – that’s good enough.
I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
It’s so tedious that everyone must be defined.
Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can’t pay Take the easy way and give in!
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.
I’m fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they’ve lived for so long.