Musician

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.

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 liked miming.

I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.

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.

When I go out, it's to have a good time, not to find a man.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.

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

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

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.

But reality television is here to stay.

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 intend to grow old very disgracefully.

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

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

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

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.

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 like being in charge of the remote control.