The public are always right... but I think they've got it wrong tonight

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.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.