I am more than half way through Morrissey in Conversation: The Essential Interviews. As expected, I am totally digging the book. The interview, "Morrissey Comes Out! (For a Drink)" by Stuart Maconie, was impressionable. (They all kind of are in their own way.) I annotated so many things.
I'll start with the vocabulary.
- Bloke – a fellow; a man
- Pedantic – characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
- Temerity – foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness
- Ignominious – marked by shame or disgrace
Here are a few quotes that I thought were interesting.
"At the risk of sounding more pompous than I am, I was always more loved than admired…I was always loved and I felt it."
"I'm frighteningly happy."
"Given the competition, it's easy to shine…or at least gleam in reasonably buffed manner."
"And anyway, one way or the other, pieces about me, whether they praise or damn, are never tedious. They're always a good read."
"But I live in hope."
"You know I have standards and I won't lower them to put up with the merely trendy. I'm not frightened of people just because of their supposed hipness."
"I have very strict guidelines, very strict rules of basic taste in human beings as well as in music, which narrows life somewhat. Either the situation is right or, as in most cases, it's wrong."
