I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

Steven Morrissey

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I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living. by Steven Morrissey

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Steven Morrissey

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I wear black on the outside by Steven Morrissey

I wear black on the outside

Steven Morrissey

clothes soul feelings

Nature is a language - can't you read? by Steven Morrissey

Nature is a language - can't you read?

Steven Morrissey

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiot... by Steven Morrissey

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

Steven Morrissey

pity idiot jesus

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

Steven Morrissey

rhinos handbags shrinking

It's so easy to laugh, by Steven Morrissey

It's so easy to laugh,

Steven Morrissey

laughter strength kindness

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable b... by Steven Morrissey

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Steven Morrissey

memorable hair long

Robert Smith is a whingebag. by Steven Morrissey

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Steven Morrissey

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

pills memorable world

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bore... by Steven Morrissey

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Steven Morrissey

shells bored real

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 memorable men

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

romance reflection people

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hur... by Steven Morrissey

It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

Steven Morrissey

it-hurts hurt heart

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.

Steven Morrissey

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

grandmother vegetarianism animal

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

Steven Morrissey

one-day tea trying

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 memorable people

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around her... by Steven Morrissey

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

Steven Morrissey

know-how knows feels

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Steven Morrissey

controversial easy memorable

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

Steven Morrissey

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