Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
You are bound to pick up influences.
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.
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
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.
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
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.
Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?
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.
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.
The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.
With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.
I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.
War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.
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.
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, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.
I still prefer horses to human beings.
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
Often I feel I say too much.