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"I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me."

"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."

"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"

"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."

"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."

"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."

"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."

"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."

"You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more."
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"Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different."

"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn."

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

"I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba."

"There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said."

"Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows."

"I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits."
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