Sonar said:
Damn, I really really like those three questions. Especially the second one. And the shitty thing is: he'll never answer them. But I could do that job at least for No. 3: "No" (even - !very unlikely! - if the answer had to be yes, of course. f*** honesty, he's a role-model!)
I dunno if the NME will choose any of the questions I submitted (particularly as I paid no lip service to Arctic Monkeys in my email... just kidding), but I can imagine Moz answering the 'Of whom are you jealous?' question with something like 'Obviously nobody.' Though, naturally, that's really a non-answer.
As for the eating meat question, I imagined the 'personal audience' scenario proposed by sarah as being just me and Morrissey, nobody else around to hear. Rightly or wrongly, I feel confident that I could convince him that I wouldn't share his answer with anybody (which would be true). And I'd preface the question by confessing that, as a devout vegetarian and sometime vegan myself, I, most assuredly, have had moments where nothing mattered, not even music, much less animals, and I've thought 'f*** it' and eaten meat.
I don't mean to steer the thread off-topic, but it seems to me that in periods of severe depression, most people test those things to which they cling the hardest. 'Does this matter anymore? Does THIS?' If Morrissey were a more casual vegetarian, not so ardently involved in animal rights issues, then sure, it's easy for me to imagine that eating meat is not something that would cross his mind when he's in his darkest moments. But if he's been as low as 'he claims', or, I would say, as low as he's gorgeously, heartbreakingly demonstrated, it's hard for me to imagine that he didn't test that part of himself at some point. 'Does this still matter?' I've tested every single thing that is truly important to me, violated every principle that I hold dear, in the moments where I cannot find the light.
Of course, in my eyes, if Morrissey did eat meat in his worst and most self-hating moments, that wouldn't make him less of a vegetarian, but more of one.
Anyway, didn't mean to go on there.
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