It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
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.
The difference with me is that I did inhale.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn`t tell it like it was.
Nothing is a career move. Everything I`ve done this year has so not been a career move.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
I love Simon Cowell, he`s a dear friend.
I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy 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.
I humbly apologise for reality Television.
But reality television is here to stay.
I didn`t think before that I`d done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I`m now ready to tell my story.