I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

Keeping your sense of self is important.

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.

I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls.

I like being in a girl band.

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.

There was no social media. There's not as many TV shows and magazines and things. Before you would release a single and you would go to HMV and do a signing and a performance, they don't even have HMV anymore.

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

Money is far more important to me than love because ultimately it lasts longer.

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 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.

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 think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.

All the stories are the least of my worries - I'm so used to it. There's never been anybody trying to get away from the band, because this is what we all wanna do.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

I'm a size six to eight.

Because of all the touring we do, our diets are all over the place.

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

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!'

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

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.

My focus has always been on being a singer. It's easy enough to keep it private.

Around the time that Girls Aloud was at its biggest, I was offered some huge acting roles in America. I decided to stay loyal to the band rather than take those other opportunities. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have just taken them.

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 played clarinet for many years.

I love to make everything as much about the music as possible.

I am scared of so many things.

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.

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

I only want to do live shows. What happens with TV shows is you can't always do things live.

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

I loved being in the group, and some of the things that we were able to do were amazing.

I mean, I didn't feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn't heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.

Insatiable,' the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'ooh I'm an entrepreneur,' rather than 'this is my singing career.'

Kangaroos are crazy and can do all sorts of terrible things.

I absolutely love Haim, they are so talented! I adore them because they are 3 sisters and I've two sisters. I think we should be in a family band together too like Haim.

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.

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

In Girls Aloud, there's always someone there to help out, to jump in on difficult questions and to moan with about how hard we're working. That camaraderie isn't there when you're solo.

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

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

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.'

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

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 didn't want the band to end, it was as simple as that.

It's hard being with a man, it really is. They just don't 'get' you all the time.

I have always had incredibly skinny legs. It's in my family.

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.

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