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

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.

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.

He who thinks he's the best is not the best... And the one who thinks "he who thinks he's the best is not the best" is also not the best.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

Take not counsel of your fears

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.