I've always treated the music business as a business.

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.

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.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons... 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.