At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELLAt 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELLI didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
SIMON COWELLAnything 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.
SIMON COWELLShave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
SIMON COWELLI look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
SIMON COWELLI want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
SIMON COWELLYou sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
SIMON COWELLMy proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
SIMON COWELLI get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
SIMON COWELLThe end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
SIMON COWELLPraise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
SIMON COWELLI 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.
SIMON COWELLI’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
SIMON COWELLHave 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 COWELLThe young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
SIMON COWELL