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 never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

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

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.

I still think about you at nightyou come back to me with the stars.

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

Composers are not all good conductors.

Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.