I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

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

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

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.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

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

Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.

If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.

I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.