"The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes." — Simon Cowell

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.