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

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 am scared of so many things.

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

I played clarinet for many years.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!'

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

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

I'm a size six to eight.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.