Zitat des Tages von Cilla Black:
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.
But reality television is here to stay.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.
I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
When I was put up in posh hotels, I thought it was wonderful.
Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.
I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.
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 did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
The difference with me is that I did inhale.
I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
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!'
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.
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
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.
There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.
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 helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of 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 can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.
Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!
It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?
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 would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
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.
In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
I intend to grow old very disgracefully.
I humbly apologise for reality Television.