I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
Cilla Black
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'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 hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.
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 was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
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.
Having a biopic made is very flattering.
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.
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.
It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?
There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
T.V. found me. I was offered jobs. It came in handy when I started having babies. Just one night's work, and then I could go home. I loved 'Surprise Surprise', but it was hard work. 'Blind Date' was a doddle by comparison.
I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.
I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.
Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing.
I just thank God when I wake up every day.
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.
Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'
It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.
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 like being in charge of the remote control.
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.
I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
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'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 wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.
If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.
Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.
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.
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.
I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.
I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.
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.
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.
I humbly apologise for reality Television.
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.
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 tried never to take anything for granted.
