Morrissey: 'Suicide is honourable'

Morrissey has reportedly revealed that he has contemplated suicide.

The former Smiths frontman explained that he has always been fascinated by the brevity of life and the inevitability of death.

Speaking in an interview for today's Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, the 50-year-old was asked if he had ever thought about taking his own life. "Yes I have, yes I have and I think self-destruction is honourable," Morrissey replied.

"I always thought it was. It's an act of great control and I understand people who do it."

Asked by Kirsty Young what luxury items he would take to his desert island, Morrissey said that he would either take a bag of sleeping bills or a bed to enable sleep.

"I would have to take the bed because going to bed is the highlight of everybody's day... we love to go to sleep. It's the brother of death," he said.