“But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.” WantFeelsSometimesMightIllCardsAshamedFulfilledMentally IllChristmas Card Author:Steven Morrissey
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantGivingWellsMeanMadeProblemKidsArtistCompanyRecordsThis WorldPopsMade ItTeenagerExecutivesContractsIdolsRecord CompaniesInexpensiveNoddingMime Author:Steven Morrissey
“Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.” PeopleWayWantVoiceRocksChangedSingingPopsRock And RollPop MusicSneer Author:Steven Morrissey
“I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.” ThinkingWantMadeArtistBandDiscoveryMarkResponsibleLabelsSomewhere ElseBeing ResponsibleAnother TimeNew Discoveries Author:Steven Morrissey
“Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingBelieveWellsDifferentBigsMovingGrowsForeverGrowing UpSeriousPersonalityBearsTeenagerDifferent WaysVery StrongShortcomings Author:Steven Morrissey
“I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.” WantWould BeBitsTvsInvolvedMarketingCampaignsBudgetsOnlineAlsPromotionDownloadsVisibilityGertrudeMapping Author:Steven Morrissey
“I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.” PeopleWantBelieveI BelieveRoyalAnarchistRoyal Family Author:Steven Morrissey
“There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.” IfsWantHomeDiesLove YouCryClubsWanting To Die Author:Steven Morrissey
“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.” ThinkingWantCertainImaginationGoes OnDignityPersonal Dignity Author:Steven Morrissey
“Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money” WantBodyChurchYour BodyAgnosticWrecksPubs Author:Steven Morrissey
