Top 33 Peas Quotes

Peas are terrible and a joke food.

I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that’s more of a quiche, isn’t it?

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: ‘put your hands up or make some noise,’ they just did it.

I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked on a lot of farms. I worked in the pea fields, harvesting peas.

I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren’t the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding.

We’d get $3.50 a bushel. A bushel is a lot of peas. You know how many peas you have to pick to fill a bushel? We would work from 6 to 2, then I’d have to go home and cut the yard.

I love jerk chicken. I could literally eat it every single day of my life. I also like curry goat, rice and peas, and ackee and saltfish. For some reason, no one ever taught me how to cook, though. They’ve always cooked for me!

You know, when I eat three peas, I’m pregnant. When I visit a city, I’m buying a house.

I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words – like ‘pois chiches’ for chick peas!

I’ve never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it’s time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I’m passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

I like how food can look incredible more than I like eating it. I started moving food around the plate to make it appear I’d eaten more but then enjoyed making faces on the plate – peas for eyebrows, Yorkshire puddings for eyes.

I’m skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.

If you gave kids peas that didn’t look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they’re much more apt to eat them because it’s now playtime.

We’re best friends that get to travel the world and create a movement. That’s what’s special about Black Eyed Peas.

Most people think if you are vegan you eat just green stuff, you just eat salad and lettuce and veggies the whole day… I’m eating beans, legumes, lentils and peas and rice and potatoes and a lot of things that have calories to give me the energy to do what I do.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl’s when it comes to working out – Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!

My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

I’m obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage – I could go on! They used to call me ‘rabbit’ when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there’s more for you!

I’ve got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.

When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it’s a worldwide one.

In my family, we can’t just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

The three of us being brought up, even though we didn’t know each other in our early lives, on the same type of music, same type of environment, there’s a lot of sameness there. It’s three peas in a pod, if they’ll fit.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.

The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes you stand out as an artist. I am not chasing the same things as Fergie or Will.i.am.

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

I’m good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in – Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff – there’s almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.