Selected Morrissey quotes for the MN Judge, Jury and Executioners to devour!:
On Bandaid
"One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England"
On China (interview with Guardian from 2010 so post NME row)
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
On being racist
"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"
On the Royals (from 2011)
"I don't think the so-called royal family speak for England now and I don't think England needs them. I do seriously believe that they are benefit scroungers and nothing else. I don't believe they serve any purpose whatsoever."
On life
"Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens."
On Richard Madeley
"He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother."
On Vic Reeves
"If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face."
On being vegetarian two days after the Brevik Massacre
"We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken every day."
On Animal Welfare
"With people in the world such as Jamie Oliver and Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.?
On the Brit Awards
"The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award."
On his solo career
"The press only write about me in terms of the Smiths story, and the fact that I've had three solo number one albums - or even 25 years of eventful solo activity - is never mentioned anywhere. Odd."
On his sex appeal
?I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word."
On Mental Health
?I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.?
On dance music
?It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.?
On blandness
?Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.?
On being controversial
?I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.?
On being miserable
?What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.?
On life
"Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard."