Quote of the month
August 2008:Shane: "You're only as good as your last album." - Source unknown
Previous quotes:
June 2008:
Shane: "I have to be really honest and say that I was actually crying in the recording booth and some of those words sung through my tears are on the recorded version of that song." - Westlife-Our Story, Official Autobiography
May 2008: -
April 2008: -
March 2008: -
February 2008:
Shane: "Well my favourite thing to do is (on a Sunday), eh I like just lounching around to be honest, I like sitting in my pyjamas all day long, not going outside. I usually just stay in, watch football or, cooking dinner, or whatever, just litterally chill out all day, I hate going out on Sundays." - westlife.com
January 2008:
Nicky Byrne: "And the final present goes to a man, who's a very sexy man, has a fantastic voice, is very good-looking, very friendly, very funny.."
Shane [laughs]: "When he's drinking.."
Nicky Byrne: "When he's drinking.. one of my best friends.. Mark, this is for Shane"
Shane [still laughing]: "very good, good, very very good!"
Westlife's Top 20 Chistmas countdown
December 2007:
Kian Egan: "Shane, that reminds me, you actually cried.."
Shane: "I actually did cry. The first I've ever cried in the studio. And I don't mean to be sobby, but I'd been away from Nicole and Gillian for whatever, 10 days. It's more Nicole, because now she's actually, recently she started coming on the phone and talk to me and say 'come home daddy' or 'miss you daddy' and stuff like that"
Mark Feehily: "Where's Mark?"
Shane: "Where's Mark, she's saying to me an awful lot lately. She woke me up this morning and goes 'Daddy, where's Mark?' But anyways, yeah I was in the studio and it was like 12 o'clock at night and I wanted to go home, excuse the pun from the first single, but that song played to me and I was nearly crying when I heard it and I hadn't even recorded it. And I was actually sobbing, sobbing in the studio, and the boys were looking in on me going...."
Mark: "Freak"
Shane: "Freak, but I didn't care, I didn't care though. But lyrically it's one of the best father to son or daughter songs, probably the best, I've ever heard in my life."
- Back Home DVD, November 2007
November 2007: Shane: "She knows daddy's on telly all the time, definitely. She knows I sing songs and stuff. She's actually starting to sing as well, which is scary. I say who's in the band with daddy and she'll say Mark, Kian and Nicky. She sings Home now. She will attempt the whole song, like. I will sing bit of the line and she'll finish it, which is great, It is such a fabulous feeling like. To have a little girl, a little piece of you and your wife together, looking up at you is just amazing." - interview Yorkshire Eveningpost
October 2007: Shane: "I'd love two girls,two boys and lucky dip. But I wouldnt be complaining what sex they were-as long as they were all healthy."
And Gillian added: "We have no plans to start just yet because we are finding our feet but five kids just seems right-we want a big family."
"Im seeing people walking around with their little babies now and I must admit I do get all gushy about it."
"I know it wont be for a while but I cant wait until it's my turn."
That's from November 2004, so they really know how to keep secrets.
September 2007: "Gillian is unbelievable, she's always been there for me right from the very start. When you get into a band and people are always looking at you you become very insecure but she has always been there for me and I've never got to a stage where I've been really down about something because she is always there to pick me back up, that's why I am marrying her, she is, in my eyes the perfect girl. She's the one who I want to wake up beside for the next 60 or 70 years, when I'm away from her pieces of my life start falling apart, I'm going to Asia for two and a half weeks soon and I'm not looking forward to being away from her for so long. We've become so close over the past year that even a couple of days apart is torture for us, if the fame ended tomorrow, that would be fine. I'd have an amazing woman and incredible memories to look back on, what more could a guy want?" - Shane, in an exclusive article about the wedding, by I think Paul Martin.
August 2007: "I used to just miss Gillian, and now it's two of them I miss.", Shane about missing his two girls when he's away, Love It Magazine
July 2007: "One thing I've learnt from Shane and Gillian is just how much stuff goes with a baby! I think were going have to get a separate tour bus for Shane and myself and our families. That will be the baby tour bus." - Nicky Byrne, Sunday World Magazine
June 2007: Shane: 'Can you sing 'Oh Mandy'?'
Nicole: 'Oh Mandy'
Shane: 'Your favourite is Uptown Girl'
Nicole: 'Uptown girl'
Shane: 'Erm what about.. what else.. oh yeah The New Kids On The Block? Ohohoh?'
Nicole: 'Oh oh oh'
Shane: 'Oh oh oh'
Nicole: 'Oh oh oh'
Shane: 'Ok everyone give Nicole a grand applause everybody'
*Everyone cheers*
May 2007: Shane: 'What's Nicky and Georgina's babies names?'
Nicole: 'Nicky?'
Shane *whispers in her ear*: Rocco and Jay
Nicole whispers: Rocco and Jay
*Everyone laughs*
Shane: Well, I whisper to her and she whispers back, say Rocco and Jay
Nicole: Rocco and Jay
*Everyone cheers*
April 2007: Whats the last thing you bought?
Shane: 'It was probably sunscreen for Nicole when I was in Australia. We had a couple of days off before the shows started over there and is was hot, we had to be careful she didn't burn'
March 2007: Shane: "There's an awful lot of songs we could put in this, but there's one song in the last couple of years that we think is brilliant and it's Golddigger, you know.."
Mark: "By?"
Shane: "Don't know *laughs*"
Kian: "Kayne West"
*loads of laughing*
Shane: But I don't care, but it's a great song and the story behind this song is everytime this song is played, Kian has to get up on a table in a nightclub and he dances, and I have to hold him up and he's going a bit like that *makes slamming movements with his hand/arm - which I think Kian calls bouncing* - taken from the "Westlife Hotties' file - about floorfillers
February 2007: Have you ever been put ootu of the bedroom?
Shane: "Erm, I'm sure I have yeah, probably once or twice yeah,if I was.. *laughs* if I was.. not I'm being honest, if I would come home and was drunk or had too much to drink or whatever and I'd be talking in my sleep, and the baby would be in the cot, she [meaning Gillian] would say 'look come on *making shoving gestures*, go out'" - Ryan Confidental
January 2007:Georgina and Gillian you were both married in the last year,what is the one thing you remember about your wedding day?
Gillian: For me it was right after the priest said 'I now pronounce you man and wife' and we kissed, Shane just burst into tears, and that got me crying, so then the whole church started crying! - VIP interview 2004
December 2006: Do you help change her diapers and prepare her feeding bottles? Shane: "Oh yes, I do. She’s crying because she lost one of her shoes and I have to help her find it."
July 2006: His bandmate Mark Feehily about Shane's smile: "Shane has a million watt mega smile that can light up the darkest room"
June 2006: -
May 2006: 'And I want to say hello to my beautiful wife Gillian who's here tonight *waves*' - during the Dublin show, 16th April 2006
April 2006: "She's getting cheeky" he says, "she knows if you're not looking at her and she'll start making little noises to attract your attention." - Shane about Nicole (in this months New! magazine)
March 2006: Mark: "I don't think we should say goodbye, I think we should say hello", Shane: 'Goodbyeeeee!' - Shane and Mark messing, on the Amazing chat
February 2006: "I'd love nothing more than for Nicole to come to a gig and see her daddy on stage in a few years." - Shane about Nicole
January 2006: "Last night I was tickling her and she couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes. It was brilliant." - Shane about Nicole
December 2005: 'In the booklet of your new cd you write that you and your wife only have 11 more to go, are you really planning to have 12 children?! A Footballteam?' (Senkveld interview)
Shane: *laughs* No no, I doubt she'd like that very much. Erm, no I think it was about the number ones, I was talking about the number ones, that we've had and that was 12 at the time, in the singles, and I said 'this is the biggest number one I've ever had'. She's number one in our family, and I said we would have 11 more to go, haha, at the end of it.. the haha was the very important part!'
November 2005: "I love ye both so much and Nicole, this album is for you. Hope you like it... Love Daddy xx"
October 2005: "Of course she's stunning... I'm her fucking Dad!" - Shane (credits to June)
September 2005: Shane: "It's been great to get time just to concentrate on the baby but now I feel more determined than ever to record the best Westlife album"
August 2005: Shane: “The baby looks like me. She’s got dark hair and is absolutely gorgeous.”
July 2005: "See you all when I'm a dad" - Shane, London, 30th June 2005
June 2005: Gillian: "Now the baby kicks all the time and it definitely recognises the sound of Shanes voice. Whenever he is talking, it moves around all the time and he even sings the odd little song to my tummy too."
May 2005: When Gillian turned 25, fans came into the two shops to give her birthday presents and cards.
Gillian: "I was shocked at this. I don't deserve anything because I'm not in the band. But it was a lovely gesture all the same. Sometimes fans come into the shops and look around. You can tell they are plucking up the courage to ask about the band."
April 2005: Shane: "At the end of the day, you can have all the No.1 records in the world, but there's nothing that comes close to the buzz of becoming a parent. It's already changing meand the way I feel about life. It's a completely life-changing thing."
March 2005: Do you miss your wife Gillian, who's expecting your first child in June, when on the road?
Shane: Totally. I see quite a lot of her to be honest, I usually don’t go a week without seeing her.
February 2005: "Thats my baby in there!" Shane
January 2005: What were your first impressions of your husband, in three words?
Gillian: Really cute, caring and considerate.
December 2004: "We went up to the room for a while before the reception started and one of the first things that caught our eye was a gift from Mark Feehily, It was a huge crate full of countless bottles of Kristal champagne. We couldn't believe it." - Gillian about their wedding gift from Mark.
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