Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

Just as surely as you can create a thought in your mind, you can create this day in the way you choose.

If I’m committed, there is always a way.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.

This is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.