With our tongue in our cheek and our hand on our heart, we can safely say that we do not know what we would do without Lee Ryan. Forget One Love, forget All Rise, the British pop star extraordinaire is our favourite celebrity for only one thing: his uncontrollable mouth. Not a week goes by where Lee Ryan's thoughts bypass the logic department of his brain and head directly for his voice box, resulting in some of the most amazing lines ever heard in modern popular culture. In honour of the great man himself, we have scoured Britain's libraries and rummaged around the inner-most corners of the world wide web to find and compile the all time best Lee Ryan quotes. We hope you enjoy...

On Blue's wild days in the early 2000s

"I was in the top 10 rock'n'roll artists – up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge."

On the vast array of similarities between him and Ghandi

"If you go on the internet and type in ‘Lee Ryan one liners’, I think I’m on par with Gandhi,"

On his pubic hair

"I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!"

On the enigma of lions

“There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.”

On his imaginary friends

“I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.”

On the struggles of his controlling his sexual emotions

“I try not to sleep with every girl I see, but it's hard!”

On the 9/11 disaster

"What about whales? They are ignoring animals that are more important. Animals need saving and that's more important. This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?"

On his future as a porn star

"I'd love to do porn. I would! I think I'd be great. I'd be brilliant. I wouldn't stop though, that's the hard thing about being a porn star."

In an attempt to chat up MTV presenter Laura Whitmore

"Are you fucking anyone at the moment?"

In a plea to Tom Cruise

"I have a film I've written about retelin can I send it to you please ide love you to read it!!! Lee Ryan!!! X"

On shagging dead people

“Yeah, you’d get some nasty fucking diseases doing that.”

On his love for Margaret Thatcher

“Margaret Thatcher would get it"

To an unsuspecting Twitter user

"Well you are fucking ugly inside and out! If you can't take it don't fucking start! Now fuck off pig face!"

On spit-roasting with Duncan James

"Me and Duncan had threesomes! We did some crazy shit with each other.

It's not weird... you just high five each other. It think they call it a spit roast."

His ironic affirmation of himself as a genius

"I'm a bordering genius"

(he meant 'borderline', by the way)

On Holy Moly

"I don't care if they never wrote another fucking thing about me, they can shove their pen up their arse."