Quotes from Nicola Roberts

I'm one of four so I'm very family orientated. Me, my sister and my two little brothers are like the four musketeers; it's us against everyone else. We're like a little pack.

Most days I am very low key. Jumpers and jeans are my staples.

It was weird. I joined this band because my life was all about singing. Then Girls Aloud became successful, and suddenly it wasn't just about being able to sing any more. It turned into a beauty contest.

I have a treadmill in the house but I never use it.

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

We love getting dressed up - and this is a great excuse for a party.

I'm just the biggest Kanye fan. I think he's a genius.

Kanye West would be my dream collaboration.

I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in my body that's from a packet. I used to eat microwave ready meals, because we were so busy, but now I like to eat clean.

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.

My top tip is to go for makeup that suits you, not what you want to look like.

Little Mix are hilarious.

Whenever I've been in the studio with Little Mix I've had the best time ever.

I don't model myself on just one person because I don't think that's healthy.

Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.

For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud.

Being singled out as 'The Ugly One' led to depression.

I used to always wear jeans, T-shirts and tracksuits because I was narrow-minded about fashion.

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

I think so many women out there start with a lot of insecurities about their skin tone and whatever it is about their hair or whatever is they feel a little bit uncomfortable with.

People feel they can say nasty things and have anonymity behind the net - as they did with all the nasty comments about me - without fear of recrimination.

I used to use a sunbed after school. It wasn't a regular thing, but I'd go in wearing my uniform. No one ever stopped me. No one told me it was dangerous.