Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns

I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is - juggling, magic, singing - this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that.