Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

The public are not stupid.

Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might. -Oromis

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.