Life is very long, when you’re lonely.
I smoke ’cos I’m hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.
Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno...
I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don’t harm anybody.
I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it’s another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you’d like to.
I find shoes difficult to be ethical about...
You either approve of violence or you don’t, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money.
I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
I didn’t really see the British punk movement, if that’s what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.
The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.
I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.
We Hate William and Kate.
There is no such thing in life as normal.
There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?
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.
You are bound to pick up influences.