So when you say it's gonna happen now. Well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long. And all my hope is gone! - Morrissey

I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.

That’s the key to modern Britain … only the mentally castrated are eligible for praise and awards. It’s against the law to be intelligent! The dumb have inherited the earth. Because of this, British arts are controlled by completely limited possibilities, and the same faces appear everywhere.

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.