Shane Filan Quotes

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.

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.

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.

You're only as good as your last album.

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.

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

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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