Pete Waterman

If you’re rude for television’s sake, it ain’t reality TV.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I’d love to have said that.

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.

Past is past.

I don’t mind losing, but I don’t like losing to cheats.

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

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

I was very cheap – that’s the way I’d always worked.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

The public are not stupid.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

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 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.

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.

I think that’s where reality TV works – you don’t know where it’s going.

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

Everything I touch turns to gold.