“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
“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 have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.” WayFoundBest WayBitterWrecks Author:Steven Morrissey
“I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.” PeopleWayLongStillsInterestingCreatingFascinatedEightyInteresting Ways Author:Steven Morrissey
“So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.” WayMayMadeSeemsMy OwnRuins Author:Steven Morrissey
“Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you” WayFeelsFacesCausesBreakLove YouKicksYes You Can Author:Steven Morrissey
“When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!” WayGivingEasySleepPayDebtCreepsEasy Way Author:Steven Morrissey
“You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.” WayLike MeDon't Like MeYou Don't Like Me Author:Steven Morrissey
“This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.” WayMaySoulPayPositionMy Soul Author:Steven Morrissey
“It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.” WayInterestSongwriting Author:Steven Morrissey
“Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’), I understood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights.” PeopleIfsWayWellsLightAbleCoursesFoundBitsGentleLit Author:Steven Morrissey
“Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.” IfsWayMusic IsAshesPopular Music Author:Steven Morrissey
