It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

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.

We wind up disappointed with our life and end up depressed because we have wasted it

Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

I wouldn't trust any evidence that the Russians suggest that they could provide.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.