Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Man is a child of his environment.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

What goes into the Melting Pot determines what shall come out of it.

A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.

I find that my Israeli background actually helps me to break some boundaries because we don't have such long traditions. We took traditions from Europe, from the Middle East, and we were encouraged to explore and adapt things.

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

At the beginning, I didn't want to arrive at a big team like Ferrari and say: 'Ok, I want the car like this' - I just wanted to try and adapt to the car and then see if I wanted to make some changes.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

You can never really tell what your influences are.

Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.

There's just really interesting facets of culture just swirling in Morocco. They all have slightly different colours, so it's just an inspiring place to be.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

I have been 'absorbing' people - their voices, their mannerisms - all my life, to the point where I am a sort of Frankenstein of different people. My own speaking voice is, in fact, a mixture of how my two best mates speak, because they are cool, and I am not.