Who is Morrissey? Why he’s the greatest singer/songwriter of all time. I thought everybody knew that.

Morrissey and the band in Honolulu (19, May 2012)

“There’s a tremendous amount of repression. It was why I introduced the flowers on stage - to reduce people’s hostility.”
-MORRISSEY 1983

“I don’t think EMI have anything to worry about - we’re not planning anything drastic or supernatural.”
-MORRISSEY

Gif Source: nonsensenonstar

“One of The Smiths’ skills has been to take subjects which people might lazily presume are dark and morbid, and make them interesting, or turn them into the subjects of interesting songs.”
-MORRISSEY 1987

“Times are different and my life has moved on since The Smiths in very specific ways, and ‘Viva Hate’ is in no way the follow-up to ‘Strangeways’. So in a sense I do feel that it is the first record.”
-MORRISSEY 1988

“I write strongly and I write very openly from the heart, which is something people aren’t really used to.”
-MORRISSEY 1983

Gif Source: nonsensenonstar

Morrissey and the band in Tokyo, Japan. (23,April 2012)

“The past is so very important. I don’t like it when people say, let’s leave the past and go ahead, because a lot of the future isn’t that attractive.”
-MORRISSEY 1985

“I didn’t want to attack the monarchy in a sort of beer monster way.”
-MORRISSEY

Gif Source: nonsensenonstar

“The sexes have been too easily defined. People are so rigidly locked into these two little categories. I don’t know anybody who is absolutely, exclusively heterosexual. It limits people’s potential in so many areas. I think we should slap down these barriers.”
-MORRISSEY 1984