The difference with me is that I did inhale.

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.

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.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

Scaoileadh Me.... 'Release me.' That was what he said. No doubt about it. It was in Gaelic, but that was what the voice said. Holy. Crap.

Generousity invents prosperity

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.