86 Quotes by Shane Filan

When I finished Westlife, we had – Louie Walsh is still managing me – I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.

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 will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn’t have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.

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.

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’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.

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.

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 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.