Top 60 Tom Fletcher Quotes

I am the last person on the dance floor at a wedding, I am the person that awkwardly hangs around the edge and says no unless they’ve had a few glasses of wine.

We live in an age where kids are so familiar with screens, I wanted to show that with a little imagination a book can be just as interactive.

Having a kid has really helped me in my life. It gives you a sense of needing to be stable. It’s not about you any more, it’s about this child that you’ve decided to bring into the world.

I can dad dance.

It’s a strange kind of responsibility being in the public eye and having people who follow you and admire you.

If there’s an Italian in the kitchen, let them get on with it.

Being in a band is the best job in the world!

You only do ‘Strictly’ once, and I don’t want to have to worry about competing with Harry Judd!

My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are a method of storytelling.

Being famous for being famous isn’t our scene.

I always wanted to play Marius in ‘Les Miserables,’ I actually got offered the role but I had to commit to do it for six months, and as that meant I wouldn’t have been able to tour with McFly I turned it down.

I love reading interviews that we’ve done and seeing how we come across, and thinking, ‘Mmm, maybe we shouldn’t say that again.’

Without McFly, who are we? Trying to find out and pretend you’re happy with that new version of you was really difficult.

Going to Africa to highlight the plight of kids with AIDS and HIV made us realise just how lucky we are.

I never think about the message I’m putting across in a song.

I hate the idea of parenting being this false perfect picture. It’s challenging and difficult at times. I like the fact I can be honest about that and people seem to respect that.

I’ve always been scared of the dark and aliens and monsters and things like that.

We naturally are getting older and one of the beauties about being in a band is it keeps you feeling young.

My all-time favourite children’s book is ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it – what a masterclass in writing.

I think it doesn’t really matter what you do for a career, that breakfast routine – get the kids ready, off to school and out the house – if you can have something in the fridge that you know and trust, and that you know your kids enjoy it then it makes your life so much easier.

After we covered Queen’s ‘Don’t Stop Me Now,’ Brian May and Roger Taylor sent us a bottle of champagne and asked us if we’d sing it on stage during the ‘We Will Rock You’ musical on what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 60th birthday.

On stage, I have my three band mates and my guitar in front of me, and mic stand and that’s like your shield – it’s genuinely amazing what having an instrument does for you, it’s like your safety blanket, taking that away is really weird.

My dad worked for Kodak and was made redundant when I was about 14. Despite this, my parents did everything they could to help me and my sister do what we wanted to do.

We want to get our music out to the widest audience possible and working with a massive paper like The Mail On Sunday will definitely help us achieve that.

Musically, I feel like the band was always my outlet.

We’re not idiots.

Being a dad you realise that it’s not about you any more. All the cliches are true I think.

I had a really happy childhood.

Our first ever live gig was in front of Buckingham Palace, an Olympic event attended by some of the royal family, and we had to follow James Brown.

My wife’s Italian, so pasta is a go-to for my eldest – he loves a good pasta. My middle child is a scavenger, he’ll just eat whatever.

I didn’t enjoy studying for my A-levels, so didn’t really want to go to University to do something overly academic, and when I saw that Creative Writing was an option, I suddenly realised that it was something I could try to do.

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

It’s hard when you’re writing for someone else. You obviously always want to do your best work, but sometimes you write and have a song idea and you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s so good I want to keep it for us.’

In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called ‘The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.’ He shared his story of bipolar disorder and depression, and it sounded exactly like me. I just cried.

It’s very useful to be able to look inside the mind of a seven-year-old when you’re writing for youngsters that age.

Ireland’s always been good to us. We always get nostalgic when we play there because it was the very first proper show we did.

I love being a dad.

I’m such a crier.

I hate the idea of having to conform with what’s current and what sounds good on radio at the moment.

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don’t care about anything as much as you do them.

We wanted to write a book that we would have read as kids, and would love to read to our children.

When you become a parent, you’re the responsible one and when there are noises around your house, you’rethe one that has to get out of bed and check it out. Before the children came along, I would have sent my wife to go and check out what the creak was.

I literally asked Giovanna to be my girlfriend the day I met her when she walked into assembly when we were 13, literally straight away.

It’s only after the first six months that it really becomes fun for dads.

We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot of children’s books and we felt that our books had that extra something we were always looking for.

If you are not able to look after yourself, you are not able to look after your kids.

I am not flexible.

Even at a McFly show, if I don’t have a guitar for a few minutes… and suddenly being on my own, without my band mates and on the dance floor with no instrument and not singing, it will be absolutely terrifying.

I love being a hands on dad I can’t imagine it any other way.

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

You can’t help but be affected by anything negative that’s written about you, even if you can shrug it off.

Dancing every day certainly gets you into shape.

I’d go to Starbucks and order a frappuccino and blueberry muffin and that was me for the day. Not only would I beat myself up internally if I consumed anything else, I’d be in a foul mood if we were working somewhere there was no Starbucks. It was an obsession – and a deeply unhealthy one.

When you look back the stuff that means the most to you is just being with your mates and having fun.

I’m the least sociable person ever.

I’m just a bit awkward, but people think I’m rude.

If the Fletchers are fed, the Fletchers are happy!

My dad worked 12-hour shifts in the Kodak factory – I remember creeping about when he was on nights – but he was also lead singer in a band playing in British Legion and working men’s clubs. My earliest memories are of being sat at the back of a pub, falling asleep on the bench while my dad played.

Although I started writing children’s books before I had kids, my approach changed after I became a dad.

I’m really just a big kid!