Memorable Quotes - Page 39

• 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

  Awards, Would Be, Tvs

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• With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

  Steven Morrissey

  Animal, People, World

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• I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

  Steven Morrissey

  Two, Psychiatrist

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• It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Dull, Made

  "Homme alone 2" by David Keeps, Details magazine, December 1992.

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• I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

  Steven Morrissey

  Middle, Fats, Middle Aged

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• I'm not very good at being dull.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dull, Very Good

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• 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

  Los Angeles, Britain, Customs

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• 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.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mother, Men, Married

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• Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

  Steven Morrissey

  Kissing, Race, Clothes

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• I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dark, Rivers, Desire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mean, People, Vicars

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• 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

  Children, Artist, Faces

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• 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'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Nice, People, Ruins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

  Steven Morrissey

  Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  New York, People, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

  Steven Morrissey

  Age, Lost, Lost Myself

  "Achieving Music Diversity: Three Keys to a Quality Streaming Music Experience", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2017.

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• Robert Smith is a whingebag.

  Steven Morrissey

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• Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

  Steven Morrissey

  Beautiful, Wells, Persons

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• Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

  Steven Morrissey

  Facts, Homosexual, Humans

  "Morrissey says he's 'humasexual', not homosexual". www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2013.

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• All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

  Steven Morrissey

  Girl, Boys, Singing

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• Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

  Steven Morrissey

  Simple, Wish, Sometimes

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• Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

  Steven Morrissey

  Pigs, Towers, Tables

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• I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane.

  Steven Morrissey

  Insane, Done, Said

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• I'd rather produce art than become art.

  Steven Morrissey

  Art, Produce

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• I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

  Steven Morrissey

  World, Pills, Obsession

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