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.'
— Cilla Black
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.
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 like being in charge of the remote control.
I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.
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.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
I humbly apologise for reality Television.
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 always wanted to be a star.
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!'
If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.
I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.
I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
'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.
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.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
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 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 don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.
When I was put up in posh hotels, I thought it was wonderful.
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 tried never to take anything for granted.
I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.
The difference with me is that I did inhale.
But reality television is here to stay.
Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
