Top 154 Quotes & Sayings by Gwen Stefani
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
Everything works out how it should.
Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
Every day I fail at something.
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'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.
I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.
I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.
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.
I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing 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!
The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup.
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.
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.
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.
I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.
My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
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.
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.
Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.
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.
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
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.
It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.
I'm really emotional. I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead. I've learned not to do that.
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.
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.
If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.
I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have learned to delegate.
It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.
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.
I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.
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?'
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'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.
I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.
Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.
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