Steven Morrissey
Steven Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey, professionally known only as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the indie rock band The Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions...
fall writing laughing
If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.
people ballet kind
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.
endurance tests mud
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
stupid trying earth
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
eye hard
Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes
simple animal animal-love
If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple
thinking giving mad
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
wrecks way bitter
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
littles strange wells
And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am
erotic paper i-can
I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.
humans courses
I am attracted to humans. But, of course...not many.
i-can
Finally, I can get on with someone
growing-up teenager believe
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.
dream
I don't dream about anyone - except myself