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"...then
there's 'November' (Spawned A Monster) which in a sense is my
version of the New York Dolls' 'Frankenstein'. It's about a
person who's confined to a wheelchair, who can't make much sense
of her life and whose only ambition is to walk down the road
in clothes she personally went out and chose and bought herself.
And that is as far as her ambitions can stretch."
- Morrissey, The Face, March 1990
"['The
Girl Least Likely To' is about] that friend you have who really
believes in the imminence of her success yet secretly you know
it's never going to happen for her"
- Morrissey, The Face, March 1990
"It's
that attitude that excludes those people who are inverted commas,
italics, whatever, less fortunate than the rest of us. They
think they're being protective but they're not, they're being
insultive (sic). They're the type of people who will condemn
me for even considering writing a song about a person who is,
inverted commas, incapacitated etc."
Were you referring to one person in particular?
" No, if you're a genuine artist you have a very powerful...
oh God... vision of most situations, whether or not they're
painful, as in my case they most often are. I don't have to
know people. It's a matter of understanding many extreme situations
in life. And if you see someone in what we oddly refer to as
an unfortunate situation, someone who's wheelchair bound, if
you're very perceptive and sensitive you can fully imagine the
lifelong frustrations of constantly being discussed by other
people, and constantly having people being irritatingly kind
to you."
- Morrissey on 'November...', Vox, November 1990
"...
she's the oddest most eccentric person I've ever met, I went
into the vocal booth and said 'Just simply give birth', which
she most expertly did, while I stood behind with a mop and a
bucket."
-Morrissey on Mary Margaret O'Hara, Vox, November
1990
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