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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.

Simon Cowell

I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
SIMON COWELL

Honest Person Thinking Unhappy
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
SIMON COWELL

Girl Kindness Zero
I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
SIMON COWELL

Decisions People Shows
Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
SIMON COWELL

Book Country People Phones
I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
SIMON COWELL

Country Learned People Stress Way
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
SIMON COWELL

Actors Genius Thinking
I 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.
SIMON COWELL

Country Legacy People Talking Thinking
It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
SIMON COWELL

Conflict Interesting Personality
I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
SIMON COWELL

Better Feel Mind Play
I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
SIMON COWELL

Addiction Baths Sometimes Three
I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
SIMON COWELL

Born Dad Son Thinking
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
SIMON COWELL

Enough Lesson Life Motivational
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
SIMON COWELL

Circles Full Circle
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three
Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
SIMON COWELL

Attitude Choices Decision
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.
SIMON COWELL

Competition Hard Mean Work

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