Quotes from Louis Walsh

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

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.

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.

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.

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'm a good manager, but a bad celebrity.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

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 love doing 'X Factor,' I absolutely love it. It has its highs and lows. Sometimes I love it more than other times. It is the best job in the world though.

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.

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

The 'X Factor' is the biggest show on TV and the other shows are just copying us with their silly chairs. Simon Cowell is the king of TV and if he's not involved then it's not good.

Simon and I are good pals. We're friends except when we walk out on 'The X Factor,' he always has a go at me. And I never expect it. We're good friends behind the scenes, we do Westlife together, we are friends.

I've had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra.

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

My sexuality is irrelevant.

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

I watched 'In Treatment,' that was good.

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.

She's not called Scary Spice for nothing.

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.

Spice Girls appealed to little girls. It wasn't good music - mums would buy the albums for their kids - it was all about the gimmicks.

I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.

A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.