Peter Noone Quotes

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.

Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.

I think to get Simon Cowell out of his comfort zone would be rather interesting. I don't know what I would make him do.

Birdman is probably one of the most intelligent music moguls out there.

Rick Rubin is interesting. He doesn't wear shoes, I think? No wait, he wears shoes.

I love Simon Cowell, he's a dear friend.

I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.

When I grow up, I want to be like Diplo, for sure.

The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.

Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.

I love Nene Leakes, of course.

I'm a talk-show host, I'm going to be a talk-show host.

Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.