‎"I always believed that pop music was about basic passions, and I think so many groups don't feel that. So many people think pop music is a business and an industry, and of course it is to a point, but really I just see the passion in music. I see how music stirs people. And I don't mean my music, I mean music in general. Everybody needs music in their life even if they've got dreadful taste, even if they listen to the worst music in the universe . . . Everybody needs to be taken away from their drab lives, and most people do lead very drab lives. Music is the one pure thing. It's passionate, it's yours, you can take from it what you like and you can hear what you like. It's private and it's so powerful, so powerful." 
-Morrissey