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" It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that. "

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" I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have. "

" I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good. "

" I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland. "

" Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it! "

" You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion. "

" 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. "

" The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good. "

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

" 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. "

" Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Everything To Me' is about everything that's important. It's about my wife, my kids, it's about life, about being happy. It's about life in general, you know, about not knowing what's going to be around the corner, but you've got to enjoy it and enjoy the things you have. My wife, my kids, my health, and stuff like that. "

" I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me. "

" I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children. "

" My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish. "

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

" You're only as good as your last album. "

" After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future. "

" I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before. "

" I think that lyrically, 'Safe' is a very positive song: it's very strong; it's about keeping somebody safe and protecting people. I think everybody anywhere in the world can relate to it. I think everybody wants to feel safe; everybody wants to feel protected. "

" When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands. "

" I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home. "

" Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child. "

" My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt. "

" Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not! "

" I think that as a band, we find joy, and we love what we are doing. We are very good friends, so we get on very well, and we have a lot of respect for each other. We have a lot of respect for what Westlife is. We have a very, very solid and strong fan base all over the world. "

" When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life. "

" If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, 'If I'm going to sing, I'm going to have to do it solo.' Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me. "

" I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song. "