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" I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one. "

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" I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. "

" I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now. "

" I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting. "

" 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. "

" British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny. "

" Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths. "

" If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible. "

" I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong. "

" I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart. "

" Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife. "

" Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public. "

" It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. "

" I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. "

" All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it. "

" There's no such thing as good news in America. "

" Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV. "

" 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. "

" I always seem to be singing against the grain. "

" Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve? "

" As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful. "

" The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. "

" I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation. "

" Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. "

" When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself. "

" 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. "

" The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags. "

" Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'. "

" Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. "

" 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. "

" My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. "