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" I'm going to give all my money away, eventually. I don't believe in all this hand-down stuff. Even if I had kids, I don't think I'd want to give them everything. "

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" I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point. "

" 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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" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" No one really has any job security anymore, including myself. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing. "

" I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it. "

" My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain. "

" In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" The only magazines I read are car magazines. "

" Most things in music go full circle eventually. "

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" I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.' "