Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

What's missing from pop music is danger.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

It's the orders you disobey that make you famous.

I liked Amy Winehouse a lot. I liked the way she did what she wanted, and she wasn't fazed about the press being on her back. I loved her songs so much.

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' I did it to be unpopular.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn't famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

People may trash me, but at least they're talking about me.

When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.

I can't front: I like Kanye.

I think it's cool to be a rock star; I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.

Being a public figure a lot of people will really love what you do, but you know there is also a ton of people who will hate on it.

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

The majority of the time... the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they're making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn't want me around, then just don't talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.

I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody.

I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.