Quotes from Simon Cowell

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.

Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

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 love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!

The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

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 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

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.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

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 obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.