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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'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. "

" I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show. "

" Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids. "

" I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Being Different

" If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "