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The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.
I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.
I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.
For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.
If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.
You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.
I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.
So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
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.
I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.
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!
I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.
When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
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
I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.
Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.
Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life
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.
The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.
Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you
Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.
I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.
When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.