Back Quote by Ant McPartlin

I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry…

— Melanie Chisholm

I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,'…

— Paolo Nutini

Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on…

— Gareth Gates

Whatever was clean I would wear, and I never pandered to that pop idol thing. But they stuck me in various teenage magazines and…

— David Essex

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

— Jennifer Egan

We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought

— Shirley Temple

As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and…

— Joan Jett

Choir singing's a wonderful thing for what ails you. There's a lot of meaning in a hymn if you think about it when you're…

— Sarah Vaughan

If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.

— Cynthia Erivo

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

— Kevin Bacon

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…

— Simon Cowell

You know, I feel sorry for the kids on television shows like 'Pop Idol.' They can never be prepared for the kind of pressure…

— David Essex