The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.
The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.
I didn't know Ian Smith myself!
The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.
Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.