Smiths Quotes

There was a big hole in my life after the Jam split up and then came the Smiths. They were just so different from anything else. And they had great songs!

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.

On the comparison between Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)`s group fight and Neo vs. 100 Agent Smiths in The Matrix Reloaded (2003): "First off, I`ve always thought of the black suits as mine, so I don`t think of them as Agent Smiths, I think of them as Reservoir Dogs with less cool sunglasses. The similarities between the fight sequences never occurred to me until I had a director`s screening and Luc Besson turned up with Keanu Reeves as his guest. I watched Keanu watching and suddenly I felt it."

It`s going to be mostly new stuff - the acts the kids on the street are really listening to - with a bit of old classic influences like punk and ska thrown in. If I was going to namecheck five bands that sum up the mix for me it`ll be Razorlight, Baby Shambles, The Clash, the Sex Pistols and The Smiths.

(As federal troops and rescue workers poured into still-flooded New Orleans, the Smiths pondered the future of their city.   Geof worried about the lack of tourism revenue without Mardi Gras or the Saints football games. But both brothers hope the city will be rebuilt better than before.  ) Driving out, I was pretty beat down, ... I was sad and embarrassed and I was like a lot of people that you might have seen on the news saying, `I`m not coming back.` But all these places—¯like Florida after their hurricanes,   or Los Angeles after the riots—¯they`ve recovered.   I`m going to do what I can to make it better. And I think there`s so much that`s not destroyed.

(The Smiths milk their goats; the milk can be used in cheese or yogurt.) It?s better for you ... is naturally pasteurized.