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

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.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Just because we're Knopf doesn't mean we shouldn't sell books as well as any other publisher in the land.

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I've done. You get these speeches that were written for men, and you're running around like an action hero, climbing scaffolding and beating people up. It was very freeing.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

Ultimately, as a director, you try and tell people where to look, but unlike film or television, where you force them to look at something, you can't control it completely.

The dragonfly brings dream to reality and is the messenger of wisdom and enlightenment from other realms.

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

I'm going to be a very bad Portuguese right now - I'm actually not a fan of pastel de natas. I'm just not a fan of cream.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

I love going out of my comfort zone I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously you have quieter years than others you dont go jumping out of a plane every day.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.