Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

My songs are just little letters to me.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

My work is intensely personal.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.