You're only as good as your last album.

You only live once, so live a good life!

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.

For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.

For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.

I don't think about success to be famous, because I've done that at the highest level, but it's all about my children.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

A man of the utmost insignificance.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.