Ronan Keating

This industry’s very fickle, you’re only as big as your last record, you know? And we intend on releasing some good records yet, so we don’t intend on going anywhere.

I’ve signed breasts and bums. I’ve signed everything!

[On a drunken experience] I seemed to have lost all control of my body. My brother Gary found me outside the house in my underwear.

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. “You’re up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it’ll be between you and Barbara.” Don’t be fooled. You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.

If I could be anyone, I’d choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

Please welcome the woman I have been assigned to mentor – Lindsay Lohan.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

[on “Pleasantville”] We were thrilled for just the three nominations we got, but obviously it’s a little sad. I went through so many press junkets with people saying they loved it. And Joan Allen was robbed but she can’t get nominated every year. She’s an inspiration for every young actress. She has that calm and reserve about herself and makes you think she appreciates the normal things of everyday. Then she transforms into this character that’s so different.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.

I couldn’t live without my music, man. Or me mum.

If The Beatles or the 60’s had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned – swim!’

I don’t think these women are stupid. I think they’re selling a personality that’s very marketable: Wouldn’t it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn’t have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, “I’m stupid, isn’t it cute?” makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, “My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it’s fun to be stupid.” Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It’s not OK.

I hear the sound of time roaring past me, …And there is no time to lose.

If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other people to like me.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it’s good to be married to someone who’s not impressed with that at all.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.