If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain's got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you're talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.

I honestly can't ever imagine retiring because I don't know what else I would do - even when I'm on holiday, 70% of the time I'm working. I think I'd like to go out on the job so, ideally, 'And the winner is... Ooooh, and he's gone!'

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.