I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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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You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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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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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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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.’
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
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I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
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There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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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 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.
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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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