"I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine."

"I hated the royal wedding."

"I'd love to...but only with you."

"I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist."

"If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity."

"I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic."

"You made me feel less alone;you made me feel not quite sodeformed, uninformed and hunchbacked."

"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 don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."

"Life is a pigsty."

"Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?"

"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."

"Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!"

"To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one."

"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."

"I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me."

"I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself."

"You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you."

"Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel."

"The heart has a heart of its own."

"Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste."

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

"In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ?"

"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."

"Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head."

"Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up."

"This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores."

"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.No hope, no harm; just another false alarm"

"I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles."

"Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true."

"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."

"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."

"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now."

"With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side."

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

"I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love."

"Hold on to your friends.Resist - or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends"

"These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love."

"What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't."

"With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do."

"I am hated for loving.I am haunted for wanting."

"Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it."

"Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low."