Shane Filan Quotes

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes.

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

I love Taylor Swift, and I've always been such a fan of her.

I confess I'm a big fan of Taylor Swift.

I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.

I've always loved lyrics, so I used to listen to Sara Bareilles - more folky, singer-songwritery people.

Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.