Brian McFadden answered: "I wouldn't say it was about a rockstar, I would say it is more about a popstar. It's... A lot of people have actually been saying that to me, a lot of journalists, saying "you sound very bitter in the song and it sounds like you didn't appreciate what you had in Westlife", and I am trying to explain to you it's not exactly about Westlife, it is just me saying the things about the showbiz life that I didn't like; which was going to showbiz parties where you have to go to the party because the record company tell you and you've got to kiss face with all these people that you don't really know just because they're important. Then obviously, travelling all over the world, when, OK, it might sound great that you are seeing all these places but you are actually not - all you are seeing is an airport, a hotel or a TV station or a gig, and you're not actually getting the experience of these countries. Then the chorus is basically saying what I do love about my life, which is getting to go home and see my kids, and getting to see my family - just, you know, kind of doing normal things. That's what you start to miss and what you start to appreciate when you do have them."

Real to Me is not only his debut single, it is also the title track of your long awaited, and first, solo album.

Asked it was fun to make the record, he replied: "It was very, very different, because when we make a Westlife album, especially the fact that we didn't write the songs, we had this team of writers that did all the Westlife songs, so we were never really involved in the creative side of things it was just, you know, vocals and picking the songs. This time we started from nothing and made the whole album the whole way through from writing the song, then recording it, then producing it. It's a whole different thing - I suppose it's the difference between you buying a house or you building a house yourself. That's what it felt like, it felt like I'd built my own house."

How big a decision was it for him to turn your back on Westlife and walk away from one of the most successful bands in British pop history?

He said: "It was definitely the biggest decision I have ever made in my life, but I was very, very unhappy for the last year of Westlife. The first five years was brilliant, I really enjoyed it, but the last year just the fun had gone out of it for me, it was nothing to do with the guys themselves it was just actually being in the band. Obviously with the birth of Lily my second child, I had missed so much of Molly growing up, her first steps, her first words - I'd missed all that I was away and I just really didn't want to miss that with Lily. I had to go home I couldn't face putting my family second to my job. Especially we had been going so long and we were so successful, I didn't need to do it any more. I could afford to go home and spend time with family and watch the kids grow up."