Morrissey

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

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

You are bound to pick up influences.

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.