Quotes from Nadine Coyle

When I get back to Derry I always enjoy a good fry-up that my mum makes. That's my big weakness. I also eat too much chocolate.

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

There's no rules in music anymore. You don't have to go down with, 'You have a single, let's do six weeks of promo, beginning with this, doing this, doing this.'

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.

I have a very good, close circle of friends, I keep it positive. Obviously there is the negative stuff, but you've got to let go of it. You can't get bogged down in the details of anything, otherwise you'd drive yourself mad.

As a woman I think we are capable of doing so many things. There is great ability to compartmentalise - to focus on the task at hand, do it well and then move on to the next one, while having another million things going on.

Writing was something that came easily to me and there's so many great producers who just teach you so much.

Right after I had Anaiya, I definitely wanted more kids. I was like: 'I think I could do this professionally.' Because I loved being pregnant so much.

The press likes to create cat fights with girl bands.

I am psychic.

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

A baby adds more stress to a relationship - you're up all night and it really is a test. Everything changes. You can't just go for lunch or dinner or a drink. That goes out the window, and you're dealing with the serious stuff.

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.

If you don't like somebody, just be genuine about it. You don't have to be anything else.

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 have nothing against getting married. It's a great thing.

I have nieces and nephews who I've nurtured, but when it's your own it's hard to put into words how difficult it is.

I remember the days beginning at sixteen, seventeen years old in Girls Aloud. Nobody knew us, nobody cared. We'd do university shows and people threw beers cans at us. All sorts of crazy things! We had to work really hard to get where we did.

I love the live shows when they're on and all singing great but I hate it when the judges say bad things about their singing. I feel sick because I feel it is mean because I've done the reality TV thing so I have such strong memories of what it feels like and I just imagine how bad and how nervous they must feel.

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 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.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

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