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" I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed. "

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" 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

Understanding

Good

Broken

" 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 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. "

" When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.' "

" 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. "

" Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. "

" I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels. "

" I've always treated the music business as a business. "

" I hated school, but I love work. "

" 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. "

" Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people. "

" As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. "

Simon Cowell

Think

I Think

" Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. "

Simon Cowell

Boredom

Rules

" I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them. "

" When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way. "

" I don't think I can do this anymore. "

" I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt. "

" The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love. "

" There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time. "

" Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself. "

" 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. "

" I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up. "

Simon Cowell

Guitar

Teacher

" 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

Doing

Chemistry

" 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. "

" I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons. "

" 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. "

Simon Cowell

American

Her

" I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food. "

Simon Cowell

Beans

Spaghetti

" 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 think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest. "

" People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. "