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 COWELLIt was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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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’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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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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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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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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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.
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
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Anything 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.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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I 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.
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I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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