Gwen Stefani Quotes

I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

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

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

When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.

The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

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.

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.

I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.

I've always loved fashion - it's a reflection of your personality.

Every day I fail at something.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

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.

I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger, but I'm not that good compared with my makeup artist, so I keep things pretty simple. I explore a lot with pink and nude lipsticks, but I love red lipsticks. I love a line and a lash and a brow. So I don't need a lot, but I have a lot. It's all there just in case - for Halloween or whatever.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

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.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

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.

I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.

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

Generally I would say that I'm not a super-adventurous shadow girl. I'm all about a lip, eyebrow, and mascara, but through the years, working with different talented makeup artists, I learned how awesome eye makeup can be if you get it right. That's how we got the colors we came up with.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

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

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.

I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

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.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

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.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

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

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.

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

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.

I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

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!

People will tell me, "You're such a punk rebel," this or that, but I was not that growing up. I was actually a super-sheltered, conservative girl. Now, there was probably a bit of me that was like, "Why do I have to be like that?"