Zitat des Tages von Simon Cowell:
I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.
I don't think I can do this anymore.
I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.
Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.
I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.
The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.
I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.
I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.
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.
When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
You are a saucy little thing aren't you?
I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.
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.
We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.
I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.
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.
I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!
