Creativity Quote by Steven Morrissey

Morrissey’s doing what he’s always done best: turning self-absorption into social diagnosis, then slipping a blade of humor in the gap. “Age gives you a great sense of proportion” sounds like the bland wisdom of a birthday-card aisle, but he immediately weaponizes it against the old enemy - his own younger self. The first sentence sets up a moral upgrade (maturity equals clarity). The second punctures that seriousness with a pivot from private torment to public absurdity: the world isn’t a stern judge; it’s “absolutely mad.” In that reframing, self-criticism becomes a kind of youthful vanity, the belief that your mistakes matter more than the chaos everyone else is busy producing.

The subtext is classic Morrissey: a defensive shrug disguised as insight. Saying “I’m doing quite well” is modest on paper, smug in practice, and that tension is the point. He’s not claiming serenity so much as staking out a livable stance: if the baseline is lunacy, then survival counts as success. It’s gallows comedy with a pop-star cadence.

Context matters because Morrissey’s persona has long thrived on hyper-sensitivity, grievance, and the romance of being misunderstood. With age, he doesn’t abandon that sensibility; he reroutes it. The line reads like an older artist granting himself permission to stop auditioning for perfection - not by becoming kinder, but by lowering the world’s credibility. It’s less self-love than strategic recalibration: if everyone’s mad, your flaws are just normal noise, and you’re free to keep singing over it.