I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

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

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'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 was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

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

Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.