Quote of the Week: Morrissey on Involuntary Celibacy
Morrisey: I don’t have relationships at all. It’s out of the question.
Interviewer: Why?
Morrisey: Partly because I was always attracted to men or women who were never attracted to me. And I was never attracted to women or men who were attracted to me. So that’s the problem. I’ve never met the right person.
From “The deep end”, interview by Nick Kent, The Face (March 1990).
Well said, Moz, well said.
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Andy Warhol’s 1980 silkscreen print of Debbie Harry. Photo from London’s Sotheby’s auction house on June 29, 2011 as part of their contemporary art sale.
Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths, circa 1980s.
GQ: “Were you in love with Johnny Marr?”
Morrissey: “Sexually? Absolutely not. There was a love and it was mutual and equal but it wasn’t physical or sexual. There are lots of people post-Smiths who would like to make some dramatic homosexual story. There never was one. It’s often said that Johnny rescued me but he was also bobbing about in his own lifeboat.”
-GQ magazine, October 2005.
Morrissey, in the ’80s.
On being single:
When you’re a teenager and in your early twenties it seems desperately eternal and excruciatingly painful. Whereas as you grow older you realise that most things are excruciatingly painful and that is the human condition. Most of us continue to survive because we’re convinced that somewhere along the line, with grit and determination and perseverance, we will end up in some magical union with somebody. It’s a fallacy, of course, but it’s a form of religion. You have to believe. There is a light that never goes out and it’s called hope. - Morrissey, in 2006
