Chris Harrison: "I Know It's Ironic I Am Giving Love Up to Push My Romance Novel"

Who better to advise on all things love than Bachelor host slash romance novelist Chris Harrison? I spoke with Chris about his advice to the other Chris — Chris Soules, who is choosing his future wife on The Bachelor finale tonight; why you should date like you're on a reality TV dating show; and how his own love life is going. Read his interview below.

"I should get one of those. Honestly, to your point, this morning I woke up, ran out to my daughter's soccer game, watched her play soccer, and then I literally ran home. I was ripping off my clothes, my car was waiting, and now I'll be here until 9 at night when I'll go home. We've got the book coming out, The Bachelor wrapping up, we're about to start production on The Bachelorette, and then I leave for a month and go shoot Bachelor in Paradise, so at what point do I slide a date into that?

"I was married for 19 years, I had a great marriage to a woman I loved very much, and I have two beautiful kids. Right now, it's not my priority. I think eventually it will be, and I'll jump right back in there, and I'll be happy to. I don't want to spend the rest of my life alone; I hope and I believe I'll find somebody. But right now, the most important thing in my life are my kids, my family, this show, and then it's my book. I poured my heart into it, so I have to push everything else to the side for a little bit. And I know it's ironic that I am giving love up to push my romance novel, but it's what I'm passionate about right now and I'm OK with it."

"I have a theory on life — and I think it comes out of this show — that I don't really know if multitasking exists. You can do several things, but you just suck at all of them. If you and I are having this conversation, and you're watching TV, and you're talking to your mom, yeah you're multitasking, but you're not paying attention to a damn word I'm saying. But this is what I've learned from the show: if we take away your phone, your mom, your dad, all your devices and your defense mechanisms and all that, you just concentrate on one thing, and that's love. And you can be successful at it. Good and bad, you can find that it doesn't work and you can find that it does. But if you just concentrate on one thing, it works."

"I think both Becca and Whitney are viable, great options. I don't think there's a huge negative, I just think they're different options and they're different lifestyles. I told him, 'At the end of this, you've narrowed it down to three great women, Kaitlyn, Becca, and Whitney — there's no bad decision here. You just need to choose who fills your life and your thoughts and your dreams. When you wake up, who are you thinking about? That's the girl.'"