Top 250 Steven Morrissey Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there’s no one I can turn to with this love.”

— Steven Morrissey

152. “Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.”

— Steven Morrissey

153. “Oh, I can’t help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.”

— Steven Morrissey

154. “The word ‘indie’ is meaningless now. It’s so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.”

— Steven Morrissey

155. “None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.”

— Steven Morrissey

156. “Meekly, I had missed the value of There is a light that never goes out, and I suggested to Johnny that it shouldn’t be included on the album. He laughs a you-silly-thing warranty, and I drop the protest.”

— Steven Morrissey

157. “The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.”

— Steven Morrissey

158. “And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?”

— Steven Morrissey

159. “My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.”

— Steven Morrissey

160. “The Queen is the ultimate dictator.”

— Steven Morrissey

161. “You’re the one for me, fatty.”

— Steven Morrissey

162. “Animals are nicer than humans and they’re conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?”

— Steven Morrissey

163. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

164. “One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it’s another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.”

— Steven Morrissey

165. “I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.”

— Steven Morrissey

166. “The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.”

— Steven Morrissey

167. “A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it’s over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began.”

— Steven Morrissey

168. “If met Vic Reeves, I’d have no desire other than to smack him in the face.”

— Steven Morrissey

169. “I’ve only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.”

— Steven Morrissey

170. “I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out – Thank you, drop dead!”

— Steven Morrissey

171. “Could things get any worse? Why, yes, little one. Be patient.”

— Steven Morrissey

172. “I spend every day apologizing or saying the wrong thing, and I am born sorry.”

— Steven Morrissey

173. “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.”

— Steven Morrissey

174. “I find shoes difficult to be ethical about...”

— Steven Morrissey

175. “I’d rather be remembered as a big-mouthed failure than an effete little wimp.”

— Steven Morrissey

176. “People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.”

— Steven Morrissey

177. “I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.”

— Steven Morrissey

178. “I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can’t be all beer and skittles.”

— Steven Morrissey

179. “Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.”

— Steven Morrissey

180. “We live in forgotten Victorian knife-plunging Manchester, where everything lies wherever it was left over one hundred years ago. The safe streets are dimly lit, the others not lit at all, but both represent a danger that you’re asking for should you find yourself out there once curtains have closed for tea.”

— Steven Morrissey

181. “I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.”

— Steven Morrissey

182. “There’s so much destruction all over the world – and all you can do is complain about ME!”

— Steven Morrissey

183. “In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?”

— Steven Morrissey

184. “I’ve gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.”

— Steven Morrissey

185. “I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.”

— Steven Morrissey

186. “I hated the royal wedding.”

— Steven Morrissey

187. “Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.”

— Steven Morrissey

188. “Her singing voice is the sound of a body falling downstairs, and she speaks as if the hangman’s hands are at her throat.”

— Steven Morrissey

189. “Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.”

— Steven Morrissey

190. “Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn’t make it back to Britain. You’re not allowed to come through customs with a tan.”

— Steven Morrissey

191. “My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.”

— Steven Morrissey

192. “I’d rather produce art than become art.”

— Steven Morrissey

193. “I do think it’s possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.”

— Steven Morrissey

194. “My notepad resting on my lap takes the scribbles of unspoken truth: effeminate men are very witty, whereas macho men are duller than death.”

— Steven Morrissey

195. “Even though I’ve been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can’t get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.”

— Steven Morrissey

196. “It’s so tedious that everyone must be defined.”

— Steven Morrissey

197. “Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?”

— Steven Morrissey

198. “How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.”

— Steven Morrissey

199. “I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.”

— Steven Morrissey

200. “Young bones groan And the rocks below say, “Throw your white body down!” But I’m going to meet the one I love At last.”

— Steven Morrissey