Morrissey
Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey, professionally known only as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the indie rock band The Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth22 May 1959
CityDavyhulme, England
memorable going-away faces
He is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.
teenager mean kids
(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.
character memorable self
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
passion simple thinking
I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion - it’s more romantic than sexual.
memorable los-angeles britain
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.
memorable people dull
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
nice things-in-life shyness
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
determination animal order
Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
memorable mean people
[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.
children memorable artist
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?
way ashes music-is
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
voice wake-up would-be
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.
memorable fats middle
I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.
firsts shots dies
GQ: "Who'll be the first of the Smiths to die?" M: "Me. I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.