Shane Filan Quotes

When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

I love connecting with the fans. I love being on stage.

Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

I learned so much watching my dad write songs and perform in front of thousands of people, and people were singing along to songs that I watched him write; it stuck with me.

I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.

Genuinely, the first gig I did when I was 18, it felt like the world shifted. I realised that I had stumbled upon a mechanism through which you could view life.

Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.