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

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

" When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors. "

" Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television. "

" If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways. "

" 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. "

" You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. "

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

" I hated school, but I love work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose. "

" My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. "

" The only magazines I read are car magazines. "

" I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate. "

Having A Good Time

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

" The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable. "

" I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show. "

" 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. "

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

" The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead. "

" I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years. "

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