Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.
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.
My whole world changed when Michael Jackson brought out the Bad album when I was about eight or nine. He took over my whole life and from then on I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I watched his videos for hours and learned how to dance like him. I would push back the chairs in the room and learn his dance moves. I even taught myself to moonwalk.
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.
You only live once, so live a good life!
I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.
The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.
Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.