Cilla Black
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.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Equality
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.Collection: Age
After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.Collection: Romantic
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 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.
I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.
I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.
When I go out, it's to have a good time, not to find a man.
'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.
In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
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 humbly apologise for reality Television.
I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.
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.
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 never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
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.
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.
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.
I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.
I like being in charge of the remote control.
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.
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 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 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.
Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'
I never liked miming.
Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!
I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.
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 always believed I would be a star.
It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?
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 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.