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" Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it. "

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" The Queen is the ultimate dictator. "

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" I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make. "

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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. "

" It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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" I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. "

" Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference? "