Top 45 Louis Walsh Quotes

All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and I spend my days in there drinking cappuccinos.

I don’t know if I’ll quit Ireland. I like living here because I like the people here, but you never know what’s going to happen.

I’m a news junkie. Anderson Cooper, I watch him every night. I watch Piers Morgan a lot as well.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I’m a chancer and they think I’m lucky! They don’t realise that I have actually earned it, because I have worked with so many bands. That’s all I’ve ever done is work in music.

I never wanted to be on TV.

When I was managing Boyzone and Westlife there were screaming girls every night. If there wasn’t a high-piched screaming, it was a bad gig. I got used to it.

I will never forget walking out on a Saturday night with Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne, household names who were opinionated and full of confidence, and I was just this Irish guy.

Sharon Osborne, my good friend, sent me to her doctor to have my eyes done in L.A., and it made me look 10 years younger.

I think Dublin is the best place in the world, all you need is money. I feel safe here, no one is going to shoot me, like in the States.

Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.

My sexuality is irrelevant.

I don’t care about making a fool of myself at all.

I married Stephen Gately off to so many people because Stephen didn’t want anyone to know he was gay at the start. He was dreading all of his life that this was going to ruin his career.

I watched ‘In Treatment,’ that was good.

I’m low-maintenance. And I’m not going vegan.

The Spice Girls are very lucky and very overrated. None of them can sing and their music is not half as good as Girls Aloud’s.

I act like I’m a bit stupid.

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

Everybody says they were ‘born to sing’ but you can suss the good from the bad. You can tell who’s in it for the music.

You get x amount of years at the top… boybands are like buses – there’s always another one coming along.

All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.

Money doesn’t make you happy – I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

There’s a difference between buying a few places yourself and getting into the property game.

The thing with One Direction is they were massive worldwide. They were going from continent to continent, right across America.

I’ve had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because ‘Lipstick’ was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.

You don’t bring your wife to work.

I wanna be a manager, because that’s my day job. It’s my real job.

I’ve had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra.

It’s very hard to meet somebody that you’re comfortable with who really knows you.

I don’t have many friends, but I have enough. I’m not one of these people who collects celebrity friends.

I say things I shouldn’t and I can’t stop myself. It’s called no filter.

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she’s doing.

J.Lo cannot sing, but she’s still selling out Vegas.

I’ll never go down the Botox route. I swear to God, never, ever. I want to look like me… the only thing I’ve had done is my hair and the bags under my eyes taken away.

If you’re Ronan Keating, who was working in a shoe shop when I discovered him, but end of thinking you’re George Michael, then you need to be stopped.

I have nothing negative to say about ‘X Factor,’ it’s the best show in the world.

Strictly?’ That’s for older people, I watch ‘X Factor.’

I don’t particularly like working with girlbands because it’s very hard to find a girlband that all get on.

What’s that man’s real name anyway? It’s not will.i.am, is it? He thinks he’s got all the answers, but if he didn’t have Fergie in the band, where would he be? Fergie is the real star. I would love her on ‘The X Factor,’ and to be a judge on the show.

I don’t want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don’t. I don’t want to be like that.

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

Hometown are different to anything I’ve heard. They have an incredible blend in their vocal styles. They are going to be huge.

A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don’t want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.

I hate ‘The Voice.’ I think everyone thought ‘The Voice U.K.’ would be like the U.S. version, and it’s not.

I’m a good manager, but a bad celebrity.