Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

I'm an addict for underwear.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

I'd say my biggest vice is caffeine, tea or coffee.

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

Yoga is how I got sober.

My life revolves around chipotles.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything