“ My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin… Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ 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. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' f… Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the… Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ 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 Patrick Morrissey
“ I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. Steven Patrick Morrissey
“ I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart. Steven Patrick Morrissey
