Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
SIMON COWELLI think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain’s got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you’re talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.
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I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
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