All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there`s no one for you, But here is one.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

She`s a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it`s over. It`s over.

Maybe I`m too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you`re on my mind, so you never know.

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

I`m lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you`d come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn`t need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They`re very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there`s nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

[About how he wants to be remembered] ...as a good friend. You know, I don`t really need to be remembered. I hope the music`s remembered.

"Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love..."

The Smiths hasn`t been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. What Johnny Marr and he [Steven Patrick Morrissey] did was fabulous, nobody can beat that. If I`d ever start a rock band, I`d want to approximate that level.

"I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks."

"I`ve always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience."

"I don`t want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it. I don`t belong in magazines, I belong on stage, in front of the audience, one-to-one. There`s something that happens there. The rest is just crap."

"I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that`s censorship."