Everything I touch turns to gold.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Knowledge is what you know, that gives you an edge overthe ordinary person.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Everybody is somewhere.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.