Creativity Quote by Steven Morrissey

Los Angeles gets reduced to a punchline here, but it lands because it’s also a confession. Morrissey isn’t just being snide about the city’s traffic and Botox fog; he’s flagging a life built on performance, distance, and self-consciousness. The throwaway clause - "if you can call it normal living" - is classic Morrissey: a little aristocratic eyebrow raise, a little wounded outsider, delivered with enough dryness to pass as casual conversation. He makes "normal" sound like a moral category, not a statistical one.

The intent is twofold. On the surface, it’s a wry quip that lets him keep the interviewer at arm’s length: yes, I live there, no, don’t assume I’m of it. Underneath, it’s a way to preserve an identity forged in opposition to the mainstream. For a musician whose brand thrives on cultivated misfitdom, claiming Los Angeles without conceding to it is useful. LA is a symbol of glossy assimilation; Morrissey’s entire persona depends on resisting that gloss, even while benefiting from its machinery.

Context matters: he’s a British artist long associated with gray-weather romanticism and mordant sincerity, dropped into the world-capital of reinvention. The line captures that friction. It also nods to celebrity life itself, where "living" becomes logistics, appearances, and an endless negotiation with the public gaze. He’s not simply saying LA is weird. He’s saying: don’t mistake my address for belonging.