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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

Simon Cowell

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
SIMON COWELL

Ships Singing Song
I 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 COWELL

People Phones Stuff
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.
SIMON COWELL

Artist Country People Song Understand Years
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
SIMON COWELL

Advice Business Careers
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
SIMON COWELL

Hard Work People Work
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.
SIMON COWELL

Ego Littles Much Times Too
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
SIMON COWELL

Break Broken Hearted Moving
There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
SIMON COWELL

Married Needs Stories
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.
SIMON COWELL

Air Country Hours People Tape
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 still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
SIMON COWELL

Capital Punctuation Stills
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.
SIMON COWELL

Artist Feelings Shows
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
SIMON COWELL

Jobs Lessons Want
Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
SIMON COWELL

Britain Enormous Talent
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three
I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
SIMON COWELL

Broken Shows Song Television

I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

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