When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.