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.
SIMON COWELLPraise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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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 have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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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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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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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.
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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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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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’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.
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