Simon Cowell Artist Quotations

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

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.

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

I think you're the first artist we've had on the show who's refused to compromise.

I think we've got better talent than last year, There are two or three contestants, even without the competition, we would take seriously as a record label. If I don't find an international artist this year, then I will have failed. That is the one thing that interests me,

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.