Gwen Stefani Quotes

“I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.”

— Gwen Stefani

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

— Gwen Stefani

“My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.”

— Gwen Stefani

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

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“I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.”

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“I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.”

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I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

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“Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.”

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“I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.”

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I have learned to delegate.

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“I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!”

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“I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.”

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I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

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“I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'”

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“You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.”

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“I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.”

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“My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.”

— Gwen Stefani

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

— Gwen Stefani

“I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.”

— Gwen Stefani

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

— Gwen Stefani

“I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.”

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I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain.

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“This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.”

— Gwen Stefani

“Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.”

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“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”

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“I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.”

— Gwen Stefani

“I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.”

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“I definitely look back at certain moments and don't think I look good ... but I know why! I didn't have a hair stylist, I did all my own makeup, and I was going to the local fabric store for all of my outfits.”

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“People might think you can turn creativity on and off,
but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic.
It's just that simple and it's just that hard.”

— Gwen Stefani

“My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.”

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“I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.”

— Gwen Stefani

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me.

— Gwen Stefani

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

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I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

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“Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.”

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Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name-total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

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“Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.”

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“Wakin' up to find another day. The moon got lost again last night, but now the sun has finally had its say.”

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“I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about.”

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“[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.”

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“I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them.”

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“I had gotten pregnant with Apollo, and I didn't plan on that - it was just such a beautiful miracle. Four weeks later they called me and, like "Do you want to do The Voice?" It was this incredible opportunity to do something different.”

— Gwen Stefani

“Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.”

— Gwen Stefani

“We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with that. And for a garage band, we were massive! We were already successful in our own minds.”

— Gwen Stefani

“I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette.”

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“I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!”

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“How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!”

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“Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.”

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“I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It's ridiculous!”

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“It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.”

— Gwen Stefani