The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

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.

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

Learn to give for free because this is the best way to serve humanity.

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

Riches are for spending.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

I'm not a dating person.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.