Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.