Steven Patrick Morrissey
Steven Patrick 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 May 1959
point reach
There has to reach a point where you've said enough.
work
I swim when I can but I don't work out.
I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.
reference
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
intended music pop
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.
good
There's no such thing as good news in America.
death
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
slightly
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.
believe certainly human immense love music others paradox people proves tattoos thousands
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.
funny politics rarely
British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.
against although higher issue people
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.
terms
For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.
I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.