A biography for Simon Cowellhasn’t been written yet.
“My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.”
“You are a saucy little thing aren't you?”
“The only magazines I read are car magazines.”
“Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.”
“When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'”
“My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'”
“I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.”
“I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.”
“Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.”
“If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am.”
“I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.”
“I hated school, but I love work.”
“I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.”
“Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.”
“I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.”
“My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.”
“I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.”
“I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.”
“There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.”
“Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.”