If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

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.

If words are the truth, what is living for?

What do you think Dimitri? Is this a good idea, Dimitri? Please give us your blessing so that we can fall down and worship you, Dimitri.

How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!

To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

The source of the ego is God.