We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

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.

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

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

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.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.