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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.