Morrissey

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

You are bound to pick up influences.

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

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.