Top 70 Nicola Roberts Quotes

No matter how much control you have or how much confidence, it’s always in someone else’s hands, all the time. That’s the scariest thing about this industry. It’s so political.

I used to do a lot of dancing when I was younger.

Song-writing in general, and vocally I’ve learnt a lot about myself. I want to get better and keep learning.

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.

Little Mix are hilarious.

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

Ultimately I’m quite a strong person.

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public’s band.

I like everything to be natural… believable.

I want cancer rates to fall.

Time off doesn’t sit well with me.

We’ve got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there’s more important things.

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

I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual – but it’s never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It’s horrific.

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

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.

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

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

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 have some people in my life who are stunning on the outside but maybe not as beautiful on the inside and I have people in my life who are such lovely people so I see them as being really beautiful.

I don’t pamper myself very often.

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.

In any social situation I’d much rather be on the periphery of things than at the centre. When I’m standing at the edge I’m comfortable in my own skin. When I’m standing in the middle it’s all confusion.

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.

Not everyone can like what you wear – sometimes you don’t even like what you wear.

In a way Girls Aloud were the first wave of modern celebrity. When we started out there were no camera phones clicking away.

I don’t like the feeling of being unhappy. I don’t like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something’s going – I would rather turn away. I just can’t feel like that ever again. It’s just horrible.

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

I feel like I had quite a bad time from about 2003 to 2007.

I was never bullied at school.

I had to learn to have confidence.

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

I do 100 squats while I brush my teeth.

I was a 16-year-old little girl from this little town who just wanted to sing.

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

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

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn’t look great.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn’t get my head around.

I think everyone just likes what they like. And fashion is something that I have found a lot of ‘like’ in.

I want people to stop being so obsessed with the way they look.

My nan’s skin cancer was on her nose and had to have it removed a few times.

Don’t like lychees.

As I got older, I realised fake tan was rather messy and I wanted to look cleaner, classier and more demure.

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

I tend to colour my hair myself with an at-home Wella dye. It allows me to control how red my hair is.

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

I’m frightened of the dark.

We made mistakes publicly.

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.

I like my food and I eat a lot.

I was aware that there weren’t many make up brands that catered for women for extra pale skin so I feel proud that I’ve been the person to do it.

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.

Girls Aloud had a style of music, so you come together and work as a group.

I’m not ill, I’m just pale.

Emma Stone and Jessica Chastain are both very classic beauties.

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

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

I used to write at home a lot. I used to write a bit for Girls Aloud.

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

I’ve always been taunted about my skin.

I felt embarrassed about how my body looked being so pale.

I love Rodial, their products are amazing.

In an arena, with Girls Aloud, it’s a big production and you don’t have time to talk to the crowd about the songs.

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.

Being singled out as ‘The Ugly One’ led to depression.

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

Too much dairy and wheat gives me bad skin.