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It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

I wish I started out as a solo artist.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.

Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I've been doubling down here in the tech world.

I never wanted to be a solo artist.

The biggest challenge was the whole learning curve of being solo artist. I've been in bands for so long that being a solo artist was completely new thing.

It's tough going out as the opening act of a band especially when you're solo.

I think fans acknowledged the effort I have made as a solo artist and as a member of Bigbang throughout the years. It is a very humbling yet gratifying achievement for me.

There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

A lot of people are trying to get me to go solo. It's just a thing I have to deal with a lot. Record labels are always trying to get me to go solo.

Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.

Nobody plans on playing their own songs in front of thousands of people.

When I meet people, a lot of people know me from different things whether it be when I was in the group or my solo stuff or 'You Got Served' or movies, it's really interesting that that film is a part of history. That's nuts.

Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.

I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it's up to me to get where I want to go, but it's a lot to take on.