I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

Work is a four-letter word.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

But reality television is here to stay.

I love Simon Cowell, he's a dear friend.

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

I woke up in morning and saw, world has moved on

Let the dark side of another does not affect our peaceful life.

No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

It's weird watching President Bush struggle with excuses for why we went to war. As he struggles, it reminds us all what a terrific liar Bill Clinton really was.

I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.