"When you're young, you're afraid of being alone. Solitude is a burden and you try to escape from it. You always wonder when it's going to come to an end. Sometimes you can't get rid of it. At the age of 38, you use it in a different way. You've learned how to live with it, and you don't try to get rid of it by all means anymore. After all you may call this resignation, but I don't think it's harmful. You're not just standing there, in pain, asking yourself 'Why am I alone? Why don't I go out?' etc. You don't ask yourself these questions anymore. You adapt yourself. Living alone does not mean living in nothingness."
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From "My gilded prison", interview by J. C. Panek, L'Indic magazine (November 1997).
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Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known usually by his family name alone, is an English singer and songwriter, and was the frontman for The Smiths.
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