Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bez

I would like to go right back in time to when God created man, and the Adam and Eve story, and the Anunnaki and all that, to discover the real truth about our creation.

I can take to any lifestyle given half the chance.

I've never been addicted to anything. Not even ciggies.

I couldn't believe that I'd got to the age of 50 and was feeling that my life was just beginning.

I would never do politics again.

I've got no pension, and I'm not going to go out with a begging bowl.

The idea of living on the land and growing my own food and energy was really appealing.

I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr. Motivator.

I've always eaten healthily; I've always been quite athletic and sporty, and I've always lived a balanced lifestyle.

I'm still rebelling against the system, but now I'm rebelling through politics instead of dancing.

Certainly, with the state of the Arctic and rising sea-levels, it would be beneficial to move people away from our coastlines and flood-lands before further devastation.

I'm a 50-year-old man. The most I can do these days on a night out is wobble on the spot.

I went to live with my grandparents when my parents threw me out. Then I went to prison at the age of 17, to detention centre, and I remained there until I was 20.

I'm a man of the people, a man for all people. I reckon that's why I won 'Celebrity Big Brother.' People saw the real me, a decent bloke.

I've got no acting skills, no musical skills and I haven't really got any dancing skills.

I'll never forget the first time I went to the Hacienda. It was like walking into a big butcher's fridge, with the plastic curtains hanging down. It was everything we had ever dreamed of in a nightclub.

I grew up in a very working-class area with a high crime rate and when I first started to break away from my social conditioning, I fell into a life of crime.

I'm an optimist; I always believe that there must be something round the corner.

I won't be on the stage because my performing days are over. Basically I'm too old. I'm incapable of doing the job, I'm carrying too many injuries.

Life gives back what you give out. If you go around grumpy and drunk, then that is what life throws back at you.

I don't like either the Labour Party or the Conservatives, but I did really like Tony Benn.

I've been saying we need a revolution, and there's no good shouting about it when you're not actually doing anything.

With some cider you can literally taste the spirituality in it.

Normally I've been burning lots of calories by dancing, going to shows and generally being active. But since we went into the first lockdown I've mainly sat on the sofa.

I bought my Mrs. a cake mixer, had her baking me cakes and biscuits every day and I was spending over £100 a week on chocolate!

I'd like to be a revolutionary leader, part of the team that brings freedom to the people of the Earth.

Believe it or not, I once did 'Mastermind' and I'm happy to say I didn't finish last.

My old fella was a policeman; he was a chief inspector of the anti-terrorism squad.

I just love the apple. There's no contest as far as fruit goes, in my eyes. It comes from the garden of Eden.

I'm just poorly organized.

Nobody got half of my politics because I was saying everything should be free.

Not in my wildest dreams did I think it would ever become a job. I'm forever grateful for it happening. Although it did take me years to own up to being a dancer.

I've got my places where no one will find me.

In a funny sort of way, the ramshackle bunch known as the Happy Mondays were a lifesaver for me.

I played football for a United XI against Newcastle recently, and then did a show with the Mondays the weekend after. Man, my legs! My groin! I really struggled through that gig. I'm not as young as I used to be.

I've never voted in my life. I've never felt able to put my pen to a ballot paper because there was nobody I believed I could vote for. They were all working for the bankers. There was nobody for the people.

Every man, woman and child in the global community has a right to be treated in a fair and equal manner and this should be both understood and upheld.

Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is 'politically correct.'

My Flying Bus stage at Glastonbury is really special to me and a great hangout for the hardcore party people.

I was deemed difficult to deal with and I blame my behavioural problems on the measles jab. I've got no proof though; it's just hearsay, but I do believe a lot of these vaccinations were absolutely unnecessary.

I always deliver on my promises, and I can promise that doing 'Strictly' would be as much of an entertaining laugh for the viewers at it would be for me.

Jobseeker's Allowance was on me case trying to get me to do some warehouse work. Shifting boxes of beans or something, so I thought 'I'd better do the Mondays thing instead.'

I don't do evil.

In my mind, if anyone can save the world from destroying itself, it will be the creative minds: the thinkers, the artists and the avant-garde trailblazers that will ultimately bring down the whole matrix of untruth and set mankind on a lesser destructive and more spiritual path.

The money all went to the taxman. I'm completely skint.

I lived in sheds, I kipped under bushes, sofa surfing - I went through the whole array of it.

I wanted a lifestyle that wasn't money-based.

I am an eternal survivor.

I have special pants I wear at Christmas.

They look after themselves, bees. Bit like a cat, really. They just come in and go out, as the fancy takes them. But then they give you honey.

I had COVID a week before they made the announcement. I couldn't breathe and I couldn't tell if it was my heart or my lungs. I got to the hospital and I said, 'I've been having this heart attack for three days' and they plugged me into the machines and everything and I had a swollen heart and a virus. I really seriously thought I was going to die.

I don't think my dad understood my character as a child growing up.

The Mondays are not going to last for ever and I can't live that lifestyle for ever.

It has been quite a rollercoaster ride, but one that I've enjoyed.

I was quite worried about old Shaun as he isn't the healthiest man in the world. I've always told him to take Vitamin C and all that but he says, 'I'm allergic to it.'

Some things are best left to memories.

I keep bees, I make all my own booze, from cider to beer to elderflower wines and all that, growing our own food, creating our own energy, making sure that in the future I never have to go with a begging bowl in my hand and won't have to ask the corporations for anything because I'll be able to provide everything I need for myself.

I had my first go on a horse the other day down at the yard on a big giant, it's like a hunter horse, it was so big, and I get on top of it... it was just massive and I was so scared.

I used to like Dick Francis novels as a kid, who was like Enid Blyton but based around horses, and he'd write about the skulduggery of the racing world.

I always advise my sons to believe that they can do whatever they want, and they do. They're very similar to me in their attitude.