My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important." Simon Cowell More Quotes by Simon Cowell More Quotes From Simon Cowell It could have been a lot worse. When I saw the X-ray, I really nearly smashed my spine to pieces, so I literally wouldn’t (have) been able to walk. Simon Cowell The hardest thing was, and I said this to Lauren when I came out of the hospital, I was so embarrassed about coming home, looking about 100 [years old] because I couldn’t walk, and I have these metal rods in my back and all these screws. Simon Cowell