I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
SIMON COWELLOf 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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Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
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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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I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.
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I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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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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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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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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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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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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What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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