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" I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me. "

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" 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

Success

People

Looking Back

" Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me! "

" 'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world. "

" It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control. "

Cilla Black

Unknown

People

" 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. "

Cilla Black

Best

Back

" I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later. "

" I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me. "

" It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid. "

" I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down. "

" 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 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 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. "

Cilla Black

Afford

Anything

" 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. "

Cilla Black

Enough

Long

" Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever. "

Cilla Black

Age

Good

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

" In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it. "

" It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes. "

" I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V. "

" I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most. "

" 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 nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like. "

" I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it. "

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

" My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. "

" I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody. "

" 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. "

" Having a biopic made is very flattering. "

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