Nadine Coyle

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

I just think of me in a supermarket planning what I'm going to cook for the evening, and buying maybe a bottle of wine, getting excited about putting on my new CD. That to me is, it's a lovely, nostalgic feeling. Everybody needs to eat and live and shop, after all.

My dad was a singer. Old classic stuff like 'Brown Eyed Girl,' or 'Delilah' if he was getting really dramatic. And there was always a gig. All the men would go out and play, congregate back at our house, and I would be up with them wailing into the wee hours.

I'm very close to a lot of people from my time in the band, like our hair and make-up people and the dancers, but you gravitate towards the people that you have stuff in common with.

I love the Girls Aloud songs and get messages from fans asking to hear them performed live again.

There was no social media. There's not as many TV shows and magazines and things. Before you would release a single and you would go to HMV and do a signing and a performance, they don't even have HMV anymore.

I like being in a girl band.

I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls.

It was fine at the start but there's always politics in any band. It just happened that I always got more vocals than everybody else, so in terms of people wanting their voice heard, that wasn't happening. It made people, very bitter.

Keeping your sense of self is important.

All the stories are the least of my worries - I'm so used to it. There's never been anybody trying to get away from the band, because this is what we all wanna do.

The entertainment thing - you're there to entertain, it's not about you - I get that, but for a while I lost my opinion.

Louis Walsh, he made me audition for Girls Aloud, he said, 'If you don't, I won't speak to you again.' I was like, 'We don't speak that much anyway.' I went and it all worked out well, I wouldn't have gone to the audition if it wasn't for him.

I get superstitious. I always have to have some form of potato, either chips or mashed potato or roast potatoes on a show day.

Because of all the touring we do, our diets are all over the place.

I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.

I'm one of those people that to be a singer you can just walk around the house and sing, you don't have to be in a studio or on a stage.

I mean, I didn't feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn't heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.

Money is far more important to me than love because ultimately it lasts longer.

I'm not a particularly healthy eater. But I am 100 per cent fit and healthy and I am the right weight for my body type.

It's amazing what you can do in your bathroom! I would do vocals and stuff on my computer that would need to be sent to London or New York for things to be added on, and I was thinking they always say you sound good in the bathroom - but then I'd kick the bin, or someone in the next room would flush the chain or something and I'd be like 'oh no!'

I had a few teachers when they would hear a noise they would immediately be like, 'Nadine, outside!' I spent about two years standing outside the physics classroom.

I am scared of so many things.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

In Girls Aloud, there's always someone there to help out, to jump in on difficult questions and to moan with about how hard we're working. That camaraderie isn't there when you're solo.

I absolutely love Haim, they are so talented! I adore them because they are 3 sisters and I've two sisters. I think we should be in a family band together too like Haim.

Kangaroos are crazy and can do all sorts of terrible things.

Insatiable,' the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'ooh I'm an entrepreneur,' rather than 'this is my singing career.'

I loved being in the group, and some of the things that we were able to do were amazing.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.

I only want to do live shows. What happens with TV shows is you can't always do things live.

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

I used to be brave. In the past, I've opened a restaurant, had a record label, had my daughter and it was go, go, go with all of these.

My big weakness is potatoes. I love them mashed or baked.

I love to make everything as much about the music as possible.

I played clarinet for many years.

I have a big family full of massive personalities so i just sit there most of the time great fun to listen to their stories.

Around the time that Girls Aloud was at its biggest, I was offered some huge acting roles in America. I decided to stay loyal to the band rather than take those other opportunities. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have just taken them.

My focus has always been on being a singer. It's easy enough to keep it private.

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.

Slowly but surely, people don't see 'Popstars: The Rivals,' they see Girls Aloud. We're a band in our own right.

I hate sweating, running and getting that red-faced look.

I'm a size six to eight.

My weight often fluctuates by half a stone.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.