"I humbly apologise for reality Television."

"Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move."

"The difference with me is that I did inhale."

"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."

"But reality television is here to stay."

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

"It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control."

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

"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."