I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.

I love to write poetry.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

I'm a proper mummy's boy.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.