If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am.
— Simon Cowell
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.
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.
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.
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.
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.
No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.
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.
I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.
When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.
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.
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.
It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.
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'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.
Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.
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 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.
I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.
People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
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.
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'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 like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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.
You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.
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.
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 look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.
Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.
If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.
I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?
Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.
I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'
I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.
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.
The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.
My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'
There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.
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.'
I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
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.
