“I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.”

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.

I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

Whatever; bling always has something to hide.

If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.

I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

I don’t like people who hide things.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.

It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.

I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.

I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there’s not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It’s farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. […] A message from the heart to the heart.

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.