that basically was everything I needed. It was everything to me! It was that kind of vibe. I had the title on my phone for about two months; any ideas that had come into my head I was writing them all down. But the song itself, it was like I was going in there and telling how I was feeling on that day. That’s what it felt like a lot of the songs were. They would say like ‘Talk to me, tell me about yourself, tell me about your life’, and I told them the whole story about Westlife and all the financial stuff, and they were like ‘Woah!’. But I was very conscious to write positive stuff. Everybody has problems. Nobody wants to hear about negative shit. Like ‘whatever mate, we’ve all got problems’. Myself and Nick did the lyrics for the song and we were just bouncing off each-other. I was an open book, I found it very easy to write lyrics about
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stuff that was true; stuff that was important. It is like me talking to somebody and just putting it on paper and putting music to it. It had to be uptempo, it had to be a feelgood song. And two days later, the head of the label rang me, they were like ‘This is really good!’. And I said ‘Really?’. And they were like ‘Honestly, really good. Trust me. We’re booking more sessions’. So then I went down with Paul Barrie, who’s a more well-known writer. He wrote with Enrique Iglesias; he did ‘Hero’, which was pretty big – Yeaaah, pretty big. It was, you know, pretty big. Every day I was going in [to sessions] thinking ‘OK what are these people gonna be like’. Most of them, I’d heard of. But we walked in there and did another song called ‘One Of These Days’, and it’s literally like ‘one of these
days, I know I’ll work it out’. And that’s what the whole song is about! Why do we always stumble and fall down? So we learn to get back up! And it’s a positive song, with a ukulele. Like, *does an impression of a ukulele*… it’s a really uptempo, foot tapping, folky, country kind fo music. I just felt like, I was just talking. Just sitting around having a conversation with a cup of coffee; they were playing guitar. I just started singing melodies and stuff, and within an hour you either have a structure of a song or you don’t, and it’s not gonna go well. We just told a story, and it’s funny how quickly it can come together, if you’re in the right frame of mind and you have a lot to say. And I had a lot to say! In a positive way. I wanted to get it out there. I’d been in Westlife, which was incredible, I’d had the other shit stuff that had happened that