The former Smiths frontman has been hospitalised several times over the past year and a half, and has now revealed that doctors were dealing with cancerous tissue in his body.
Despite the diagnosis, he insists he isn't afraid of dying and accepts it as something that comes to everybody.
Speaking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo he explained: "They have scraped cancerous tissues four times already, but whatever. If I die, then I die. And if I don't, then I don't. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that's what illness can do. I'm not going to worry about that, I'll rest when I'm dead."
Past health issues include a bleeding ulcer in early 2013, two bouts of pneumonia in March of the same year, food poisoning in July 2013 and a respiratory infection almost a year later, in June 2014.
Morrissey also claims he's at an age where he should've stopped making new music and thinks he could retire from songwriting and live performances when he's finished his first novel.
"I'm at an age when one should no longer be making music. Many composers of classical music died at age 34. And I'm still here, and nobody knows what to do with me. The audience that I have is very young, which leads me to think that the songs of the Smiths, as with those of the Ramones, are more significant now than before ... My novel is coming along well, but it would be presumptuous of me to talk about something that is not finalised yet. It will probably be published next year and with luck I will be able to stop singing forever, which would make many people happy!"
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