Being different is good; embrace it.

It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

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

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.