Nay-Sayers:

"Morrissey is not a musician, he patently doesn't even like music. Nor is he a particularly smart lyricist; just an Alan Bennett fan who got lucky. If he's really clever, he could do a Quentin Crisp and get a gimmick (like refusing to wash his cutlery and groin for a decade). Just a suggestion, and surely preferable to his current state of living death."
- Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 6/11/92