Simon Cowell

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

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.'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.