Latest Simon Cowell Quotes from Interviews

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• Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that's great.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Hate, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

• 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.

  Simon Cowell

  Mother, Stars, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

• 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.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Artist, Years

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

• You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.

  Simon Cowell

  Years, Creating, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

• I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore.

  Simon Cowell

  Dad, Taken, Kids

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

• My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

  Simon Cowell

  Dad, People, Important

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

  Simon Cowell

  Powerful, Reality, Numbers

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

  Simon Cowell

  Artist, Differences, Work Ethic

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh.

  Simon Cowell

  Laughing, Make Me Laugh

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• What I'm interested in watching is to make sure that they give the right advice now to the contestants who are going forward because, you know, it's one thing just to criticize but you've got to also give, you know, good advice which is going to help them. Overall, I think they're a good panel.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  "Simon Cowel Dishes on America's Got Talent". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 12, 2008.

• There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to take it case by case.

  Simon Cowell

  Kids, Thinking, Age

  "Simon Cowel Dishes on America's Got Talent". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 12, 2008.

• Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Second Chance, People

  "Simon Cowel Dishes on America's Got Talent". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 12, 2008.

• I thought the first two seasons of America's Got Talent were good. I think this one is the best one by a mile because they - you see the difference this year, I think, with the crowd being effectively the fourth judge. But most importantly, I think that these shows have to have a relevance because if you're not finding stars at the back of these shows - whether it's Idol or Got Talent - they're a complete waste of time.

  Simon Cowell

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "Simon Cowel Dishes on America's Got Talent". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 12, 2008.

• I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.

  Simon Cowell

  Stars, Ideas, Age

  "Q&A With Simon Cowell About U.S. Version Of 'The X Factor' For Fall 2011: “Zero Rules. Anybody Can Enter, Anybody Can Compete”". Interview with Tim Adler, deadline.com. October 19, 2010.

• I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Fun, Tired

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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

  Simon Cowell

  Stress, Way, I've Learned

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

• Normally if I go to one of these things I'm in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It's a fantastic show. But it's incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.

  Simon Cowell

  Kids, Pride, Night

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

• I honestly can't ever imagine retiring because I don't know what else I would do - even when I'm on holiday, 70% of the time I'm working. I think I'd like to go out on the job so, ideally, 'And the winner is... Ooooh, and he's gone!'

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Holiday, Thinking

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

• One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.

  Simon Cowell

  Memories, Fighting, Parent

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

• My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.

  Simon Cowell

  Heart, Doctors, Blood

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

• I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.

  Simon Cowell

  Feel Better, Play, Mind

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

• I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, Mean, Competition

• You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

  Simon Cowell

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. December 19, 2013.

• 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.

  Simon Cowell

  Fun, Dad, Son

• I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain's got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you're talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Talking, Legacy

  "Britney Spears and Simon Cowell Talk THE X FACTOR Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 25, 2012.