Shane Filan Quotes

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I want to show who CL is on my first solo album.

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

I always tell the story of 'Irreplaceable.' I initially wrote 'Irreplaceable' with myself in mind, with plans of it being my record. I love that record; however, what I realised about that record was that though given the circumstances of that situation - men and women are not that different - when you sing about it, it changes things, you know?

I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I am so unbelievably excited to share 'I Hope' with the world. After my 'Idol' chapter closed, I knew this song was the one I wanted to frame myself with.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

I feel like an EP is for practice and an album is the game.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.

My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

I'm just really excited to get music out there that's not from the show, because it's cool to be able to break out and have my own stuff under my own name.