Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Shayne Ward.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Shayne Thomas Ward is an English actor and singer. He rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor. His debut single, "That's My Goal", was released in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2005 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and was that year's Christmas number one. It sold 313,000 copies on its first day of sales, making it the third-fastest-selling single of all time in the UK, behind Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Will Young's "Evergreen", which sold 685,000 and 400,000 copies in their first days of sale, respectively.
It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.
I'm a proper mummy's boy.
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.
Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.
Yes, I adore the fact that girls like me.
I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.
Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.
I love to write poetry.
Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.
I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.
I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.
I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.
If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.
You judge people as you meet them.
I don't see the point in being bitter.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.
If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous. To me, this is just a job.
I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.