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" The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. "

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" I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired. "

" Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse. "

" There has to reach a point where you've said enough. "

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

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

" The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever. "

" Pop music has progressed. "

" I don't iron anything. Never have and never will. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. "

" 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. "

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

" I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have. "

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

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

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

" I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard. "

" You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies. "

" I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. "

" 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. "

" The Queen is the ultimate dictator. "

" The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. "

" That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person. "

" 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. "

" I feel undefinable actually. "

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

" Often I feel I say too much. "

" Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. "