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

I don't think I can do this anymore.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

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

I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.