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

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.

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.

The public are not stupid.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Some won’t appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you’re appreciated and understood. –

And you… do you know what you are?”“Stupid?”“Beautiful, ” he says, his face turning red.

God created all people good.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.