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I Am Stuck In The Dream Of An Album That Sells Well Not Because Of Marketing, But Because People Like The Songs.

I've Always Assumed There's A Dark River Flowing Beneath My Fans' Desires.

Life's Full Of Tricky Snakes And Ladders.

I Am Hated For Loving. I Am Haunted For Wanting.

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.

It's So Easy To Laugh, It's So Easy To Hate, It Takes Guts To Be Gentle And Kind.

We Hate William And Kate

And If You Ever Need Self-validation, Just Meet Me In The Alley By The Railway Station

Nobody Can Possibly Be So Hungry That They Need To Take A Life In Order To Feel Satisfied - They Don't After All, Take A Human Life, So Why Take The Life Of An Animal? Both Are Conscious Beings With The Same Determination To Survive. It Is Habit, And Laziness And Nothing Else.

I Don't Iron Anything. Never Have And Never Will.

I Can Get Incredibly Erotic About Blotting Paper.

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.

I Always Seem To Be Singing Against The Grain.

The Only Thing That Could Possibly Save British Politics Would Be Margaret Thatcher's Assassin.

I Don't Want To Get Too Involved In Marketing Budgets, Online Promotions And Download Set-ups Because It Would Be A Bit Like Gertrude Stein Mapping Out A Tv Campaign. I Want To Sing. I Want Visibility. I Am Essentially Al Martino, Not Seymour Stein.

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.

My Love, Wherever You Are - Whatever You Are - Don't Lose Faith. I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday To You.

When I'm Lying In My Bed, I Think About Life And I Think About Death. And Neither One Particularly Appeals To Me.

He [elton John] Is Pushing His Face In All The Time And Telling Us About His Private Life. Nobody's Interested. He Should Just Go Away.

I Wear Black On The Outside 'cause Black Is How I Feel On The Inside.

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.

Shyness Is Nice, But Shyness Can Stop You From Doing All The Things In Life That You'd Like To.

There Is No Such Thing In Life As Normal.

I've Never Intended To Be Controversial But It's Very Easy To Be Controversial In Pop Music Because Nobody Ever Is.

I Have Found The Best Way To Avoid Ending Your Life As A Bitter Wreck Is To Start Out As One.

Singers Attract Fans With Aspects Of Their Own Personality. People Feel I'm Passionate And Obsessive. They Know This Isn't A Profession For Me, It's A Vocation. It's Not An Egotistical Thing, But Something Else. I'm In A Dialogue With My Audience, And That's Something I Need

As Anthony Said To Cleopatra As He Opened A Crate Of Ale: "oh, I Say, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, Some Girls' Mothers Are Bigger Than Other Girls' Mothers.

I Don't Mind If You Forget Me. Having Learned My Lesson, I Never Left An Impression On Anyone.

In My Life Why Do I Smile At People I'd Rather Kick In The Eye?

The Queen Is The Ultimate Dictator.

I Find Shoes Difficult To Be Ethical About.

This Position I've Held ... It Pays May Way And It Corrodes My Soul.

Disappointment Came To Me, And Booted Me, And Bruised And Hurt Me, But That's How People Grow Up.

If You Travel To Germany, It's Still Absolutely Germany. If You Travel To Sweden, It Still Has A Swedish Identity.

I Was Wasting My Time, Praying For Love. For A Love That Never Comes, From Someone Who Does Not Exist.

Wasting My Time

There Are Some Bad People On The Rise; They're Saving Their Own Skins By Ruining People's Lives.

Artists Aren't Really People. And I'm Actually 40 Per Cent Papier Mache.

I Would Never, Ever Do Anything As Vulgar As Having Fun.

What's The First Thing I Do When I Wake Up In The Morning? Wish I Hadn't.

I Always Thought My Genitals Were The Result Of Some Crude Practical Joke.

Whether It Be Beyonce Or Justin Bieber, We See Singers Who Have Absolutely Nothing To Offer Anyone As They Walk Off Stage Clutching Three Grammys In Each Hand.

This World, I Am Afraid, Is Designed For Crashing Bores.

There's So Much Destruction All Over The World - And All You Can Do Is Complain About Me!

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.

I Avoid People Who I Actually Like. I Suppose That’s A Phobia But Also A Habit.

The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get; You're Wasting Your Time.

Wasting Your Time

Life Is Very Long, When You're Lonely.

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 Used To Dream, And I Used To Vow; I Wouldn't Dream Of It Now.

It May All End Tomorrow, Or It Could Go On Forever (in Which Case I'm Doomed).

In My Life Why Do I Give Valuable Time To People Who Don't Care If I Live Or Die ?

Well, I Think The Way You Feel As A Teenager Stays With You, Forever. I Really Believe That. And We Try To Change And We Hope That We Change, But We Don't Really In Big Ways, In Serious Ways. I Think The Personality Is Formed At That Time, For The Good And For The Bad. ... We All Want To Grow Up And Move On And Appear To Be Different To People. And We Want People To See Us In A Different Way. But, I Don't Know, I Think The Personality Is Very, Very Strongly Cemented, And We Just Bear Whatever Shortcomings We Have And Learn To Live With It.

You Are A Work Of Art.

I'm Capable Of Looking On The Bright Side. I Just Don't Do It Very Often.

Life Would Be So Colourful If Only I Had A Drink Problem.

We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful.

Becoming Successful

I'm Just Happy Being Dumpy. Dumpy, Fat And Middle-aged.

The Sorrow Of The Ira Brighton Bombing Is That Thatcher Escaped Unscathed.

Because Enough Is Too Much! And Look Around ...can You Blame Us?!

I'm Not Very Good At Being Dull.

If Met Vic Reeves, I'd Have No Desire Other Than To Smack Him In The Face.

I'd Love To...but Only With You.

Any Criticism Of Thatcher Throws A Dangerously Absurd Light On The Entire Machinery Of British Politics. Thatcher's Name Must Be Protected, Not Because Of All The Wrong That She Had Done, But Because The People Around Her Allowed Her To Do It.

When They Bury Me In A Church And Chuck Earth On My Grave, I'd Like The Words 'well, At Least He Tried' Engraved On My Tombstone.

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 Am The Son And The Heir Of A Shyness That Is Criminally Vulgar.

Madonna Reinforces Everything Absurd And Offensive. Desperate Womanhood. Madonna Is Closer To Organized Prostitution Than Anything Else.

If You Respect Or Love Animals You Could Never Eat Them. It's That Simple

There's A Club If You'd Like To Go, You Could Meet Somebody Who Really Loves You, So You Go And You Stand On Your Own, And You Leave On Your Own, And You Go Home And You Cry And You Want To Die.

I Was Never Young. This Idea Of Fun: Cars, Girls, Saturday Night, Bottle Of Wine... To Me, These Things Are Morbid. I Was Always Attracted To People With The Same Problems As Me. It Doesn't Help When Most Of Them Are Dead.

Music Is Like A Drug, But There Are No Rehabilitation Centres.

Satan Rejected My Soul; As Low As He Goes, He Never Quite Goes This Low.

It Begins In The Heart...and It Hurts When It's True. It Only Hurts Because It's True.

The Passing Of Time And All Of Its Crimes Is Making Me Sad Again. The Passing Of Time And All Of Its Sickening Crimes Is Making Me Sad Again. But Don't Forget The Songs That Made You Cry And The Songs That Saved Your Life.. Yes, You're Older Now And You're A Clever Swine. But They Were The Only Ones Who Ever Stood By You

Why Pamper Life's Complexities When The Leather Runs Smooth On The Passenger Seat?

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.

The Brits Are Ghastly. I Never Would Accept A Brit. It Would Be Like Laurence Olivier Being Happy Getting A Tv Times Award.

I See Myself Rather Like An Old Discarded Dishrag.

I Think Labels For The Most Part Want To Sign New Discoveries So That That Label Alone Is Seen To Be Responsible For The Rise Of The Artist. Not Many Labels Want Bands Who Have Already Made Their Mark, Because Their Success Is Usually Attributed To Some Other Label Somewhere Else At Another Time.

You Either Approve Of Violence Or You Don't, And Nothing On Earth Is More Violent Or Extreme Than The Meat Industry.

As A Very Small Child I Found Recorded Noise And The Solitary Singer Beneath The Spotlight So Dramatic And So Brave... Walking The Plank... Willingly... It Was Sink Or Swim. The Very Notion Of Standing There, Alone, I Found Beautiful.

Women Don't Go To War To Kill Other Women. Wars And Armies And Nuclear Weapons Are Essentially Heterosexual Hobbies.

I Can Smell Burning Flesh... And I Hope To God It's Human.

I Think We Were All Initially Swept Along With The Obama Win, But He's Proven To Be Simply A Set Of Teeth, And Useless In Every Other Regard.

But Sometimes I'd Feel More Fulfilled Making Christmas Cards With The Mentally Ill. I Want To Live And I Want To Love. I Want To Catch Something That I Might Be Ashamed Of.

Sometimes I Wish I Was Just A Simple Drunkard.

The Royal Family To Me Are Not England, And They Are Not The Flag.

Robert Smith Is A Whingebag.

It's Always Nice To Receive A Compliment.

My Family, Although They're Very Large On Both My Parents' Sides, They Don't Know Much About Their Family Tree. Occasionally, They Try To Dig, But They Can't Get Very Far, And It's Baffling. In Dublin, It Seems That So Many Public Records Were Wiped Out; It's Proven To Be Very Difficult, So I Know Very Little.

They Are Very Tame To Me. God Bless Noel, I'm Sure He'll Always Have A Spot On 'bob's Full House', But I Search For Something With More Bite And Rage.

My Childhood Is Streets Upon Streets Upon Streets Upon Streets. Streets To Define You And Streets To Confine You, With No Sign Of Motorway, Freeway Or Highway.

I Like To Think That There Is A Clear Majority Of People Who's Be Supportive Of The Idea, It Does Save The Existing Industry. It Does Provide Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars For The Commonwealth.

The Cure: A New Dimension Of The Word 'crap'.

Sing Your Life; Any Fool Can Think Of Words That Rhyme.

The Heart Has A Heart Of Its Own.

With No Reason To Hide These Words I Feel, And No Reason To Talk About The Books I Read, But Still, I Do.

I Think I'm A Realist. Which People Who Don't Like Me Consider To Be Pessimism. It Isn't Pessimism At All. If I Was A Pessimist I Wouldn't Get Up, I Wouldn't Shave, I Wouldn't Watch Batman At 7:30 A.m. Pessimists Just Don't Do That Sort Of Thing.

Rush To Danger; Wind Up Nowhere.

Hold On To Your Friends. Resist - Or Move On Be Mad, Be Rash Smoke And Explode Sell All Of Your Clothes Just Bear In Mind: There Just Might Come A Time When You Need Some Friends

You Can't Help But Feel That The Chinese People Are A Subspecies.

These Tears I'm Wailing, I Spill Not Without Reason. Remove Them, My Dearest Love. Take Me To The Place I've Been Dreaming Of, Where The Grotesquely Lonely Meet The Grotesquely Lonely And They Whisper, Just Very Softly, Please Be Mine, Dearest Love.

Eating Meat Is The Most Disgusting Thing I Can Think Of. It's Like Biting Into Your Grandmother.

Oh, I Can't Help Quoting You, Because Everything That You Said Rings True.

I Was Driving My Car, I Crashed And Broke My Spine. So Yes There Are Things Worse In Life Than Never Being Someone's Sweetie.

All Human Activity Is Fruitless When Pitted Against The Girls And Boys Singing On Pop Television, For They Have Found The Answer As The Rest Of Us Search For The Question. I Will Sing, Too. If Not, I Will Have To Die.

Burn Down The Disco Hang The Blessed D.j. Because The Music That They Constantly Play It Says Nothing To Me About My Life

Popular Music Is Slowly Being Laid To Rest In Every Conceivable Way... The Ashes Are Already About Us If We Could But Notice Them.

He Drove Me Home In The Van, Complaining, 'women Only Like Me For My Mind'.

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me. No Hope, No Harm; Just Another False Alarm.

The Fire In The Belly Is Essential, Otherwise You Become Michael Buble - Famous And Meaningless.

Each Year Of Life Brings Us Nearer To Our Decline, But I Will Continue To Seek A Listener Until I'm Dead In A Ditch.

I Can Chase You, And I Can Catch You, But There Is Nothing I Can Do To Make You Mine.

I Wish That Prince Charles Had Been Shot. I Think It Would Have Made The World A More Interesting Place.

The Fascinating Thing About Human Beings Is That They Don't Last, And Everything Eventuates, And Everything Is Very, Very Brief. And Even If You Do Manage To Look Reasonably Well As You Age, Unfortunately You Are Attacked At Every Level By Illness And So Forth. It's A Fact Of Life.

I Don't Dream About Anyone - Except Myself

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?

The Monarchy Is Foremost A Business, And It's Important To Them That The British Public Continue To Finance The Excessive Luxurious Lifestyles Of The Now Quite Enormous, Wasteful And Useless 'royal' Family.

British Monarchy

When You're Younger, You See The People Who Are In Power And Think They Must Have That Position Because Of Some Degree Of Skill. And As You Get Older, You Realize It's Not True, That Most People In Those Positions Are Absolutely Inept. And This Naturally Makes You Feel Better About Yourself.

I Find Christmas Very Difficult.

[i'll Be The First One Of The Smith To Die.] I'll Be Shot - Probably By One Of The Ex-smiths.

That Was The Problem With The 'celibate' Word Because They Don't Consider For A Moment That You'd Rather Not Be, But You Just Are. I Was Never A Sexual Person.

It's The Refuge For The Mentally Deficient. It's Made By Dull People For Dull People.

You Made Me Feel Less Alone; You Made Me Feel Not Quite So Deformed, Uninformed And Hunchbacked.

Long Hair Is An Unpardonable Offense Which Should Be Punishable By Death.

Bob Geldof Is A Nauseating Character. Band Aid Was The Most Self-righteous Platform Ever In The History Of Popular Music.

Jesus Made Me, So He Should Save Me From Pity, Sympathy And Idiots Discussing Me.

Not Everybody Is Absolutely Stupid. Why On Earth Would I Be Racist, What Would I Be Trying To Achieve?

I Was Quite Advanced When I Was At School, And When I Left School It Seemed That All These Really Oafish Clods From School Were Making Tremendous Progress And Had Wonderfully Large Cars And Lots Of Money, And I Seemed To Be Constantly Waiting For A Bus That Never Came.

There's No Blame Placed At Kate Middleton, Who Was In The Hospital For, As Far As I Can See, Absolutely No Reason . . . She Feels No Shame About The Death Of This Woman. The Arrogance Of The British Royals Is Staggering, Absolutely Staggering.

You May Not Realize This, But People Have The Power To Change The World.

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.

You Are Bound To Pick Up Influences.

It Takes Strength To Be Gentle And Kind.

And If I Seem A Little Strange Well, That's Because I Am

Life Is A Very Serious Business For The Simple Reason That Nobody Dies Laughing.

Serious Business

It Doesn't Stop. It Really Doesn't Stop. It's The Way I Live Every Single Day. I Don't Do Anything Else. I Have No Other Interest Other Than Music. At All.

I Just Feel That When All Is Said And Done, I Am Not Insane.

For The First Time In My Life The Eternal 'i' Becomes 'we', As, Finally, I Can Get On With Someone.

People Are Still Disturbingly Vague About The Treatment Of Animals. People Still Seem To Believe That Meat Is A Particular Substance Not At All Connected To Animals Playing In The Field Over There. People Don't Realise How Gruesomely And Fighteningly The Animal Gets To The Plate.

With People In The World Such As 'jamie Oliver' And [tv Chef] Clarissa Dickson-wright There Isn't Much Hope For Animals.

I Think Flowers Are Very Beautiful Things. Very Nice And Innocent Things. They Don't Harm Anybody.

There Are More Than Enough To Fight And Oppose; Why Waste Good Time Fighting The People You Like?

I Don't Even Know If I Exist Offstage.

Boot The Grime Of This World In The Crotch Dear.

I Am Attracted To Humans. But, Of Course... Not Many.

I Find That It Isn't Wise To Attempt To Judge People On Their Public Persona, And Even On The Music They Make. Because I've Met So Many People Whose Music I Cannot Stand, And They're Very Nice. At The Same Time, I've Met People Whose Music I've Loved, And They're Not The Person You've Invested All This Emotion In.

I Still Prefer Horses To Human Beings.

I Do Maintain That If Your Hair Is Wrong, Your Entire Life Is Wrong.

America Is Not The World.

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.

Well, The Problem I've Had With All The Interviews I've Had In America - I Had Meetings With About Nine Labels - And They All Say To Me "will Your New Songs Fit In With What Is Popular And What Is In The Chart?" And I Say "good God, I Hope Not!"

No British Politician Has Ever Been More Despised By The British People Than Margaret Thatcher.

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.

Bring Me The Head Of Elton John . . . Which Is One Instance In Which Meat Would Not Be Murder, If It Were Served On A Plate.

They Said They Respect Me, Which Means, Their Judgment Is Crazy.

And If You Have Five Seconds To Spare, I'll Tell You The Story Of My Life".

Story Of My Life

I'm Dramatically Underexposed. I Demand More Attention!

I Have Forgiven Jesus For All Of The Love He Placed In Me, When There's No One I Can Turn To With This Love.

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 Have No Love For Myself As A Human Being, But I Have Immense Pride In The Music I Make, And I Believe It Has An Important Place. Others Do, Too, And The Thousands Of People With Morrissey Tattoos Certainly Proves Something.

[sigmund Freud] Just Made People Feel So Neurotic About Their Lives. I Mean, If You Dreamt About A Lampshade, It Meant You Wanted To Be Whipped By The Local Vicar Or Something.

Smiths Songs Certainly Have An Astonishing Afterlife.

I Am Unable To Watch The Olympics Due To The Blustering Jingoism That Drenches The Event. Has England Ever Been Quite So Foul With Patriotism? The 'dazzling Royals' Have, Quite Naturally, Hi-jacked The Olympics For Their Own Empirical Needs, And No Oppositional Voice Is Allowed In The Free Press.

God, Come Down, If You're Really There - Well, You're The One Who Claims To Care!

It Was Probably Nothing, But It Felt Like The World.

Age Shouldn't Affect You. It's Just Like The Size Of Your Shoes - They Don't Determine How You Live Your Life! You're Either Marvellous Or You're Boring, Regardless Of Your Age.

Close Your Eyes, And Think Of Someone You Physically Admire, And Let Me Kiss You.

Racism Is Beyond Common Sense And Has No Place In Our Society.

Now I Know How Joan Of Arc Felt, As The Flames Rose To Her Roman Nose And Her Walkman Started To Melt...

I First Bought A Buffy Sainte-marie Record When I Was 12, And Her Music Has Always Remained With Me. In The 1960s, As A Political Activist, Buffy's Lyrics Were Fearless, And I'm Very Grateful For All The Risks That She Took.

Most People Keep Their Brains Between Their Legs.

If You Love Animals, Obviously It Doesn't Make Sense To Hurt Them.

The Smiths Was An Incredibly Personal Thing To Me. It Was Like Launching Your Own Diary To Music.

Personal Things

Does The Body Rule The Mind Or Does The Mind Rule The Body? I Dunno.

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.

Don't Leave It All Unsaid, Somewhere In The Wasteland Of Your Head.

I Have No Love For Myself As A Human Being, But I Have Immense Pride In The Music I Make.

Denmark Is Sadly A Hellish Place If You Happen To Be A Pig, But The Brioche And Fruits That Tower On The Table Before Me Have Me Hastily Attaching A Feedbag.

I Hated The Royal Wedding.

Because You Wear A Uniform, A Smelly Uniform...and So You Think You Can Be Rude To Me.

I Normally Live In Los Angeles, If You Can Call It Normal Living.

Well, I'm A Catholic By Birth And You Can Never Shed It.

One Day I Decided To Try To Have A Complete Day Without Tea. I Was Quite Shaken. I Was Quite Disturbed.

And Make No Mistake, My Friend, Your Pointless Life Will End; But Before You Go, Can You Look At The Truth?

I Am Human And I Need To Be Loved, Just Like Everybody Else Does.

Although I Don't Have Anything Against People From Other Countries, The Higher The Influx Into England The More The British Identity Disappears.

Don't Talk To Me About People Who Are 'nice' Cause I Have Spent My Whole Life In Ruins Because Of People Who Are 'nice'.

Whenever I Go Past Mcdonalds I Get Very, Very Angry.

Doing Nothing Gives Me Great Pleasure. And Believe Me, I Succeed Wonderfully In It.

Oh Yes, You Can Kick Me And You Can Punch Me And You Can Break My Face But You Won't Change The Way I Feel 'cause I Love You

Again, I Lay Awake, And I Cried Because Of Waste.

In England, Pop Music Seems Now To Be Exclusively For Children. If An Artist Is No Good, Why Is It Necessary To Have That Artist Repeatedly Rammed In Our Face?

Nothing Is Important, So People, Realising That, Should Get On With Their Lives, Go Mad, Take Their Clothes Off, Jump In The Canal, Jump Into One Of Those Supermarket Trolleys, Race Around The Supermarket And Steal Mars Bars And Kiss Kittens.

Can You Squeeze Me Into An Empty Page Of Your Diary And Psychologically Save Me?

I've Gone Through Managers Like People Go Through Shredded Wheat. Nobody Looks After You.

Those Catholics, They Really Nab You When You're Young.

The Word 'indie' Is Meaningless Now. It's So Over-used That People Think It Simply Means Green Hair.

It's So Shameful Of Me: I Like You.

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