For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

It simply works. You do it twice a year. Who cares? And it balances my smoking and drinking.

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

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.

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)