Simon Cowell Good Quotations

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

Thank God for Chris Daughtry. We had some good performances tonight, but this was the only real-world performance. Best tonight by and large.

It is a personal thrill for me to play a role in giving the best young singers in America a shot at realizing their dreams. I'm also happy to be working with my good friend Simon Fuller for the foreseeable future and I look forward to continuing to be a part of the Fox network and the phenomenal success that is American Idol .

I think you're going to be a very successful model. And it's best to be great at something rather than not so good at something.

You made the others look like good amateurs. ... You looked like a returning pro.

The Super Bowl's a good analogy. You've got to make people look forward to it once a year.

To me, it was absolutely crystal clear at this stage last year that Carrie Underwood would win the competition. So it all felt a bit obvious. Whereas this year, I could argue the case for seven or eight of the contestants. I genuinely don't know who's gonna win. I've got a feeling who are gonna make the finals. But once you're in the finals, I think you're gonna have the most open competition you've ever seen, which for us and the viewers at home, that's a good thing.

No matter how good the singer you are, you're always going to be tied to the song you sing. If I have to guess based on the song you sang, I think Elliott, you'll stay.

You've got quite a good voice, the problem I have is this looks to me like 10 years ago.

They don't perform that song live because it's not a very good song.

I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.