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Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.
There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.
I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.
I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.
I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.
The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.
Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.
I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.
I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.
It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".
There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.
We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.
The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.
It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.
I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.
I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.
I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.
I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die
When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'
The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.
Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.
Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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 couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.
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.
There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to take it case by case.
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.
I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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 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 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.
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.
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.