The 58-year-old is currently judging the British talent show with Amanda Holden and Michael McIntyre and said it was fate that brought him together with Pixie, 20.
He said to UK newspaper The Sun: 'I feel like if you imagine and think you see that person then you can draw that person to you. I am doing that a lot.
'Something happened to me just recently and it was so unbelievable. It was about a girl - it wasn't about love - it was about a girl named Pixie Lott and how I was trying to find Pixie Lott.
'Before I had a chance to find her I opened my phone and it said: 'Pixie Lott wants to come to the show tonight. Can you get her tickets?' And I went 'Whoa!''
He added: 'I was on the airplane going through albums and I heard some of her songs. The next thing I know she is in my dressing room and she's gorgeous. And now she is texting me and we're like friends.'