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

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

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