Simon Webbe Quotes

My first kiss was with a girl called Natalie. We dropped these pencils. It was all of us together, like four guys and four girls. The teacher was writing on the blackboard and we dropped our pencils at the same time, went under the table and went mwua! Came back up.

I think there's a lot of people that know about Blue, but there's also another big chunk of the market which aren't quite sure of us as well. We sort of Urban-ish, Motown back in the day, but those people that go out and buy say the Black Eyed Peas album wouldn't think of buying a Blue album cos they don't think we've got tracks on there like that, but if they bought the album they'd see that we have.

I do try and play as many British records as poss, but it's hard to promote someone like Jamelia so the album won't sell. I'm afraid it's all about image and sometimes I afraid music doesn't speak for itself in this country, it's all about profile and stuff.

I set up Industry People for people with talent. Industry People is a people's agency. We've got actors, actresses, models. But at the end of the day it's still a business and we don't want to waste people's time. I don't get involved in the model side of things because obviously I've got friends and it's like 'Oh, I could be a model' and all that, well let the booker be the judge of that cos I'm no expert on how models should look.