Top 55 Nadine Coyle Quotes

I am psychic.

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

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.

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

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

I think it’s down to our songs – we’ve always made sure every song on every album works.

The press likes to create cat fights with girl bands.

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.

My older sister has four kids and I honestly don’t know how she does it.

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

I have nothing against getting married. It’s a great thing.

I can’t decide which way I talk. I really, honestly can’t.

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.

I’m just not a huge romantic type and getting married is a hugely romantic gesture.

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

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.

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.

Some rules are stupid.

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.

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 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.’

When I’m out and people ask me what I do for a living, the worst thing you can say is, ‘I’m a singer.’ It opens up a can of worms.

My weight often fluctuates by half a stone.

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

Of course I have been watching ‘Derry Girls!’ Series, link and record! Everything shuts down when it is on the TV. I’m like ‘Nobody speak.’

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

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

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 am scared of so many things.

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

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

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

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

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

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 am such an indoor person.

I love doing things on stage with other people.

I do like to do mad stuff on occasions.

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.

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

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

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.’

It’s amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

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

I played clarinet for many years.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Louis Walsh, he made me audition for Girls Aloud, he said, ‘If you don’t, I won’t speak to you again.’ I was like, ‘We don’t speak that much anyway.’ I went and it all worked out well, I wouldn’t have gone to the audition if it wasn’t for him.

I have insecurities, but they don’t consume me. It doesn’t bother me if my hair’s a mess or if I have a bad skin day. I just don’t look in the mirror!

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.