Quotes from Nadine Coyle

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

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.

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!'

The traditional model for selling an album isn't the only way of doing things.

Some days I am fine but us mums are not robots, we are not perfect, we have to give ourselves a break and a pat on the back.

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

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.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

I rarely do shows just by myself, I've had vocalists or musicians so I can look at them and connect - and say 'can you breathe... do you need a water?'

Lip balm can double up for taming the brows, too.

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.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

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 like England, but L.A.'s warmer.

There was real camaraderie in Girls Aloud, the feeling of one for all, and all for one.

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

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

I used to love watching that programme '19 Kids And Counting' and I thought I might just keep going and have 19 kids myself. I had these big plans to home-school them all and I even wanted to be a surrogate as well.

Girls Aloud is not just us five, there's like us five plus a ridiculous team of 50 who travel with us, it's amazing.

I played clarinet for many years.

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

Sweetest High' is for the clubs, that's what it was for. It wasn't supposed to be anything serious.

I like to swim. Love a swim, any time I can do that is a good thing.

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