Morrissey: "I always seem to be singing against the grain."

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

Morrissey: "I'm cursed with the gift of foresight."

Morrissey: "Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison."

Morrissey: "When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."

Morrissey: "Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"

Morrissey: "I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting."

Morrissey: “You can’t cancel someone who has always been cancelled. When did you last see me on television, or hear me on the radio? I unintentionally invented the condition of being cancelled!”

Morrissey: "Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public."

Morrissey: "The paradox is that 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."

Morrissey: "I feel undefinable."

Morrissey: "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."

Morrissey: "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."

Morrissey: "All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it."

Morrissey: “It seems to me that as soon as one person boo’s they all start to boo, and then when someone cheers they all start to cheer… but that’s just a loose theory.”

Morrissey: "The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair."

Morrissey: "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."

Morrissey: "I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often."

Morrissey: "We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really."

Morrissey: "What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't."

Morrissey: "War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men."

Morrissey: "I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family."

Morrissey: "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 marvelous or you're boring, regardless of your age."

Morrissey: "I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong."

Morrissey: "With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears."

Morrissey: "The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music."

Morrissey: "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. I find it very sad."

Morrissey: "Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'"

Morrissey: "I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas."