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

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

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

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

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

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.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.