We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

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.

I have learned to delegate.