A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don't want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.
A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.
All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.
Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It's how you learn your craft.
Everybody says they were 'born to sing' but you can suss the good from the bad. You can tell who's in it for the music.
Hometown are different to anything I've heard. They have an incredible blend in their vocal styles. They are going to be huge.
I act like I'm a bit stupid.
I buy a lot of art. I buy Andy Warhols.
I can't swim.
I do love great pop music, The Hollies had brilliant pop records.
I don't care about making a fool of myself at all.
I don't have many friends, but I have enough. I'm not one of these people who collects celebrity friends.
I don't know if I'll quit Ireland. I like living here because I like the people here, but you never know what's going to happen.
I don't particularly like working with girlbands because it's very hard to find a girlband that all get on.
I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.
The Spice Girls are very lucky and very overrated. None of them can sing and their music is not half as good as Girls Aloud's.
I'm not a good dancer.
I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.
Sharon Osborne, my good friend, sent me to her doctor to have my eyes done in L.A., and it made me look 10 years younger.
I have nothing negative to say about 'X Factor,' it's the best show in the world.
There's nobody knows more about dancing and choreography than Arlene Phillips, ever.
I'm low-maintenance. And I'm not going vegan.
Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.
Spice Girls appealed to little girls. It wasn't good music - mums would buy the albums for their kids - it was all about the gimmicks.
It takes a very wise man to act the fool.
Music is what I care about. Not material things.
I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.
