My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.
It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.
The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.
The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop.
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad.
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.