Morrissey autobiography interview questions

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” Oscar Wilde wrote in “The Critic as Artist” in 1890. “Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”  And there is no better arena to see this observation in practice than popular music, awash as it is with characters that perform, in song and on stage, those thoughts, feelings and ideas that most resonate with our lives and our selves. Whether we guessed his name or not, we really want Lucifer to have moves like Jagger, and Bowie to be floating in his tin can high above the world, and any number of hardcore punks to be the rage-filled political revolutionaries that they lyrically portray themselves to be. It is the mask that excites us, that draws us in, that gets in our ears and our hearts in equal measure and it is ultimately the mask that keeps us coming back to that song, that story, that moment. But it doesn’t last, and so we endeavor to find meaning behind the mask and motivation behind the music. “Reader,” as Morrissey, singer, songwriter and creative force behin

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