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.
But reality television is here to stay.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
I humbly apologise for reality Television.
Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
The difference with me is that I did inhale.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
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.
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.