Steven Patrick Morrissey
Steven Patrick 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 May 1959
reference
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
life
Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.
certainly death sneezed
I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
duties list people
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.
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If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
glorified music powers
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
los normally
I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.
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England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
consider extremely time
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.
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Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.
beneath england outside promoted suddenly tight
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.
point reach
There has to reach a point where you've said enough.
work
I swim when I can but I don't work out.
I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.