I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.

I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.

I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

I tried never to take anything for granted.

The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.

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.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

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

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

I like being in charge of the remote control.

I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.

Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.

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

I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

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.

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

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

But reality television is here to stay.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

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

I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

When I was put up in posh hotels, I thought it was wonderful.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.

I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.

I always wanted to be a star.

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.