Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English reality television judge, entrepreneur, philanthropist, film, record, and television producer. He is most recognized as a judge on the British TV talent competition series Pop Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent, and the American TV talent competition shows American Idol, The X Factor, and America's Got Talent. Cowell owns the television production and music publishing house Syco...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth7 October 1959
CityLondon, England
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.
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.
I don't think I can do this anymore.
It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.
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'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.
When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.
If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.
I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.
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.
I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.
I'm going to give all my money away, eventually. I don't believe in all this hand-down stuff. Even if I had kids, I don't think I'd want to give them everything.
When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.
There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.