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.

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

A Beautiful Woman Is A Baggage. Thank God Yours Is A Suit Case

Life's too short to build something nobody wants.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.