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...
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'.
giving today england
I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living
giving long stuff
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
sleep giving debt
When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!
art giving ifs
To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.
giving people care
In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?
believe memorable giving
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.
good-enough fingerprints persons
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.
thinking people watches
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.
done spirit wells
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.
age levels lasts
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.
thinking effort sound
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.
dream song people
I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.
records maps labels
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.