I was NEVER too KEEN on the BRITISH music PRESS. They've called US a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I've READ a lot of WAR writing, even WORLD War I writing, the BRITISH war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert GRAVES's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.

A BRITISH declaration be TAKEN against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing US.

I was fortunate to be born when I was. There's been a massive rise in BRITISH cycling since I joined the junior programme when I was 17. It all started in 2004 when CHRIS Hoy won gold for the 1 km. time TRIAL in ATHENS; when one person starts doing well, they take EVERYONE with them.

It the British SYSTEM is the most gigantic system of SLAVERY the world has yet SEEN, and THEREFORE it is that FREEDOM gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, AMERICA was protected by HUGE oceans and, in PRACTICE, by the BRITISH NAVY. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

On the Northern IRELAND QUESTION, for instance, the British and IRISH governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always GONE ahead, believing in the RIGHT to information.

Look, I've always said from the word GO MANY YEARS ago that I FELT the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British PUBLIC.

We feel we're the only British group WORTH exporting since the SEX Pistols, definitely.

I'm not gonna give the BRITISH Government the JOY of keeping taxing me. They don't TAX ART. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her JUDGES why as a CHRISTIAN she did not LOVE the British, she answered that she did love them, but she LOVED British in their COUNTRY. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic BRITISH counties CLOSEST to my city home in Birmingham, is WHETHER or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep ENOUGH to foul my socks.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't MEAN anything in America but is QUITE NICE in ENGLAND - the Order of the British Empire for services to DRAMA.