I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

Past is past.

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

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

The public are not stupid.

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

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.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

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

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.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

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

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 think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

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

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

Theres a certain edge about cruelty. If youre honest about it most people wince but say it had to be said.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a "reality".

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

After youve done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

I want to be a cool mom.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I bake bread nearly every day; I use Jim Lahey's no-knead method and leave it to rise overnight.

With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.

I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.