How long did you work on it for?
Well it was really, really strange. When I started my solo album I got a new manager and we'd planned to spend a year writing, and then in a year's time when we had enough material we could hopefully get a record deal. The first two songs I actually wrote were a duet and were very real to me. When the manager heard them, he was like, "Wow, we want to start playing these for the record company now." And by the time he got to meet the record companies and play the songs, we pretty much had it done in three weeks.

Do you have a favourite song on the album?
Demons. After I wrote the song, I just felt really proud about it. I think it's the best song I've written on the album. Every other song is about a personal life experience - things that have actually happened. Whereas Demons is just about this constant dream I used to have. I had the same dream every night, for like a year.

What's one thing about girls you just don't get?
Everything! You can just never win. Yeah, I think women are a weird species - very hard to understand. They're from a greater intelligence then men, we just can't get them.

When did you realise you were famous?
I think it was when I was in Westlife. We'd been away for like three months or something like that, and when we arrived back at the airport and looked out the window of the plane there was a big billboard saying, "Welcome home Westlife". That was a bit of a moment.