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I can't stand stage mothers. ...

I can't stand stage mothers. It doesn't work. You definitely feel that with the new generation of pop stars right now they've all managed to work it out for themselves. You have to have confidence in that. When you're young, you know your market better than I will. I love having young people on the show because I can learn from them.

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They understand what their ma...

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.

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It would hurt my feelings if ...

It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.

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The object of this competitio...

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.

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I don't like people who are h...

I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

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Every time I sat in a chemist...

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.'

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You sounded like Dolly parton...

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

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Every single negative can lea...

Every single negative can lead to a positive. Any negative situation... don't get too down about it - you'll work it out. You learn it as you go along. You don't get smart at 17. You just don't unless you're one of a billion. it will happen over time and it's the getting there which will be the most fun.

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I look at him [son Eric] and ...

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

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My dad wasn't someone who was...

My dad wasn't someone who was a great disciplinarian, we had a fun relationship, but he gave me really constructive advice in my life, which I still carry today and I do pass on to other people. So if I can have the same relationship with my son as I had with my dad, then I think he'll be very happy and I'll be very happy.

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The biggest shock when I lost...

The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my control. When I started to make the money back, I vowed that it would never happen again. I bought things only when I could afford them. There was no big mortgage, no cars on hire purchase. I remember buying a TR6 sports car for ?6,000, and funnily enough it gave me more pleasure than the Porsche ever had.

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No, what I am doing is kind b...

No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".

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Harshness to me is giving som...

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

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My advice would be if you wan...

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

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The artists who endure are th...

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

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I've learned to deal with str...

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

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Sometimes when you have a rec...

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.

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Britain's got talent, enormou...

Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.

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I don't mind being cast as so...

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

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I'm not that musical. I don't...

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

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