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

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

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

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

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

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

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

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.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

Morrissey