Words matter. These are the best Gareth Gates Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was always used to being centre stage – something that had its good and bad points.
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who’s the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There’s lots of girls out there who do.
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
I’m very driven, and I always have been. So I’d like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I’ll be a really good dad.
Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on ‘Pop Idol,’ and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
Living with a stammer is difficult. It’s a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can’t be the person you want to be.
I’m part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It’s why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don’t want him to hear me stammer.
I’m part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn’t a cure; it’s something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.
I’ve got my feet firmly on the ground, I can’t see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can’t be more important than my singing. Until I’m an established name all over the world, my speech won’t be more important than my music.
I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn’t need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
I’ve stammered all my life, and it’s fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It’s made me make some decisions that I’m sure I wouldn’t have if I didn’t suffer with this affliction.
I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in ‘Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat’ gave me a taste for it.
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
I like to have quiet evenings and relax.
Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
If I get a bad review, I don’t take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
I’m not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I’ll continue to work with the band. If not, we’ll all go our separate ways again.
