Top 100 Gwen Stefani Quotes
#1. My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.
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#2. 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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#3. My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
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#4. 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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#5. 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.
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#6. Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok
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#7. Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.
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#8. 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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#9. My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.
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#10. It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.
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#11. I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.
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#15. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
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#16. I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.
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#17. Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.
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#20. If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
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#21. You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.
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#22. Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.
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#23. The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
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#25. 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.
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#26. [On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.
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#27. My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
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#28. Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.
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#29. A miracle ... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.
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#30. 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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#31. I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
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#32. I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.
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#33. Have another baby. I mean, it's such a miracle to have one. And there's so ...
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#34. I've been spoiled being in the fashion business. My son will be like, 'Mommy, 20 new pairs of shoes came today. How come?' Because I'm always telling him it's not normal to have 20 pairs of tennis shoes to try on before school.
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#36. I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that's cuter than you?
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'
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#40. Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
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#41. It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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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#46. I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
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#49. And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.
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#50. I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.
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#51. 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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#52. My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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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#55. Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it.
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#58. If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.
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#60. I've always loved fashion - it's a reflection of your personality.
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#61. At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
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#62. I'm in a band, and I know exactly who those girls are. I know exactly what goes on backstage. I wish I had a little leash to walk him around.
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#63. Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
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#64. 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.
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#65. I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.
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#66. I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! 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. And I want to wear cute clothes.
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#67. Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
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#68. I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.
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#69. You can't plan anything, right? You can try.
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#70. 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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#71. The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?
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#72. You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not.
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#73. 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.
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#74. What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God's sake, don't say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.
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#75. It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
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#76. And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.
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#77. Look at your watch now. You're still a super hot female.
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#78. 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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#79. I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'
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#80. 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.
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#81. Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.
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#82. 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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#83. Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.
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#87. Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.
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#88. As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.
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#91. 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.
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#92. At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
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#93. I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.
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#94. Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
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#95. I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.
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#96. 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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#97. It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.
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#98. 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.
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#99. I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.
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#100. 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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