3 December 2020 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’ family. I find it very sad.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey What’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn’t.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I’m not an anarchist, but I believe that people don’t want the royal family – the so-called royal family.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I think there are unseen powers who don’t want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
