I think Morrissey’s pretty lucky in the fact his depression doesn’t seem to render him immobile, I mean he said the times he suffered the most from it was in his teenage years and in the Smiths, but looking at his amazing rate of productivity and creativity, it really doesn’t seem to have hindered him. If anything, it seems a source of inspiration, like he can take those feelings, maybe of frustration or anger at the world, and convert them into some kind of energy he can only release through his words and singing. I think that’s so fortunate because for most people it would seem that depression just stands right in the way of any kind of production. I think when he was younger he seems to have been much more introspective, like he seemed to have no curiosity of other countries and that’s one thing that has considerably altered with him. And maybe that opening up is a sign that he deals better with his dark times now? He always seems to have said that because he had such a rotten time when he was younger, growing older could only be a relief and I think that’s a pretty positive way to look at it, I wish I could have that attitude!
I was just watching the French interview he did earlier this year and he mentions how watching the films of Claude Brasseur helped him through a dark few months he’d had; they lifted him out of it. So I guess he’s always had his films that he turns to and that hasn’t changed. And he does seem to have a few close friends he can talk things through with, like that guy on The Importance documentary, who said Morrissey turns up in his dressing gown on and wearing his glasses. So it sounds he does have ways of dealing with it and I think seeing how he is now is very inspiring, you know, if he can do it…
