Quotes from Nicola Roberts

Me whole life, me whole childhood, me whole growing up, the competitions I went for and the weekends doing the dancing and all the shows, was to be a singer.

I'm not gonna sit and pretend I'm hard as nails.

Too much dairy and wheat gives me bad skin.

I have very sensitive skin and every time I have a facial it makes it worse, so I tend to avoid them.

I do 100 squats while I brush my teeth.

Clothes have helped me a lot, they helped fix my identity crisis.

We made mistakes publicly.

I'm frightened of the dark.

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

We had to struggle for what we've learned, but we're so thankful.

I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.

My celebrity hair icon is Lana Del Rey, and beauty wise I like Jennifer Lawrence and I love Kerry Washington in 'Scandal' - her make-up is flawless on that show. She is one of my TV icons.

I want cancer rates to fall.

I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked.

I think if you're happy and you're a nice person and you have a nice personality that always shines through.

Having red hair was never an issue, I'm so happy I have red hair.

It's brilliant to me, I absolutely love having red hair. I love being ginger and I love my specific colouring.

I do worry about getting skin cancer in the future - you only have to use a sunbed a handful of times.

I didn't know I was harming myself. I don't think my parents should have allowed me to use a sunbed, but they weren't aware of the dangers either.

I hated London; I was so lonely.

I got to a really dark place when it came to wanting to be tanned, really disliking my natural skin tone. I was listening to the wrong people and all sorts of people were passing judgement on my appearance.

I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for yourself, it's just the way it is.