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.)

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

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

You are a saucy little thing aren't you?

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.