Explore Quotes by Simon Cowell

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

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

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.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

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

If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

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 am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am.

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

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

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

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

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

I hated school, but I love work.

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.