Quotes from Perrie Edwards

The best revenge is success.

We have grafted, we write our own music, we are great performers - we put our life and soul into it. So when people say, 'Why are they wearing that?' you just want to say, 'Did you hear the vocals? Did you see the performance? Did you see how much went into it?'

When we were younger we were so confident. Then when we got flung into the industry we began to get self-conscious and started criticising ourselves because other people were doing it.

Be yourself. Be confident.

We all felt very passionate about what we wanted to do and how we wanted to be perceived by our fans and by the media.

We're perfectionists. We take everything we do so seriously.

We've been around the world, we've performed in places we couldn't even imagine we'd perform in.

I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's a singer and my mom's a singer, so it kind of runs in the family and I just thought it was normal.

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

In Manchester a girl pulled a lock of my hair out once. She hugged me and then tugged my head and just walked away hugging it.

I will never change. In years to come, I'll still be that Geordie lass walking round South Shields with a battered Mars Bar!

I think we just get scrutinised for everything - even when you breathe!

I'm not like 'Oh I am going to be so mobbed today and everyone is going to take my photo.' I don't see myself like that.

Everything we do is different like we have photoshoots, then video shoots, rehearsals, vocal warm up days, learning all the different harmonies then we have recording days. Every day is different.

There is nothing better than having people around you who make you feel special, make you feel calm, make you feel normal.

If you could still see yourself living in a cardboard box with somebody with no money then that is love you know, it's what's important.

One thing we've had to do in our careers, which is hard, is to put on a brave face.

A lot of 1D fans are our fans as well and most are very supportive of us.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.

Just be yourself, be confident. Try and stand out - but in a good way. Stand out for being yourself other then wearing like a chicken suit or something.

When we're on tour we don't stop, from start to finish we don't stop dancing because our main goal, for people who come to a Little Mix concert, is we put on a show. Like the whole shebang.

I was always the one at school nobody fancied and I've only ever had one proper relationship.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I do like making things a bit controversial - I think that's what sells and what catches people's ear.