I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried

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.

Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.