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“Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?”

from the 1984 song "This Charming Man"
From songs

“I'll try to sing as fast as I can, I know you all can't wait to see U2.”

Glastonbury Festival, 2011
In Concert

“Jools Holland: "Knock Knock!"
Morrissey: "I'm not in!"
Jools: "Oh, come on."
Morrissey: "I refuse to open the door."”

On Later With Jools Holland (21 May 2004)
About the Notre Dame fire, Odds & Ends

“You shut your mouth,
How can you say I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does”

from the song "How Soon Is Now?"
From songs

“I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.”

Live at Edinburgh, (2008)
In Concert

“I think animals need all the help they can get, because they have none. They have no rights. They have no protection. And so I think animals need help. And I think animals look to humans for protection, and of course humans lead them into slaughterhouses, which to me is just like an image of leading children into a slaughterhouse. There’s no difference. That level of trust and… But it’s a very cruel world.”

From a Norwegian TV interview (2002)
In interviews etc., About vegetarianism and animals

“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!"
From a radio interview with Janice Long (2002)
In interviews etc., About pop culture

“There's more to life than books you know, but not much more”

from the song "Handsome Devil"
From songs

“If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that, I’ll rest when I’m dead.”

from an interview for El Mundo (2014), regarding the announcement of Morrissey's cancer diagnosis
In interviews etc., About life and death

“DK: Have you ever been to a rave?
M: Rave is the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.”

from "Homme alone 2" by David Keeps, Details (December 1992)
About the Notre Dame fire, Odds & Ends

“The reports of my death have been greatly understated.”

from "Message from Morrissey," True To You http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_130131_01 (31 January 2013). Twist on a quote by Mark Twain. <br class="br">In interviews etc., About life and death

“GQ: “Were you in love with Johnny Marr?”
M: “Sexually? Absolutely not. There was a love and it was mutual and equal but it wasn’t physical or sexual. There are lots of people post-Smiths who would like to make some dramatic homosexual story. There never was one. It’s often said that Johnny rescued me but he was also bobbing about in his own lifeboat.””

From an interview by Adrian Deevoy in GQ http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/gqarrific/, October 2005, p. 278 <br class="br">In interviews etc., About The Smiths

“I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say "this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike."”

It's personal discovery."
From an interview with Russell Brand in 2009
In interviews etc., About pop culture

“(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. … But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm…You're nodding, you know what I mean.”

From a radio interview with Janice Long (2002)
In interviews etc., About pop culture

“And you're standing on our streets
where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to do time
The first of the gang to die / oh my”

From the 2002 song "First of the gang to die"
From songs

“I suppose you have work tomorrow? That's quite sad, really.”

live in Claremont, CA (1997)[citation needed]
In Concert

“It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.”

From Who Put The 'M' In Manchester? (2004)
In Concert

“I'm here with the cause, I'm holding the torch
In the corner of your room- can you hear me?
And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living,
Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.”

From the song "Rubber Ring"
From songs

“TF: At which point did you stop being celibate, why and who with?
M: I don't see how anyone would benefit from seeing that kind of information in print. Least of all me.”

From "The Face Q&A", The Face (November 1999).
In interviews etc., About love

“I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?”

From Who Put The 'M' In Manchester? (2004)
In Concert