Gwen stefani quotes

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

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That’s what's really cute to me.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

I have to be creative to be happy.

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It's ridiculous!

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."

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

I work out five days a week, I can't imagine not doing it.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

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

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.

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 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 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.

Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.

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.

I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

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?"

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.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

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.

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 love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

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

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

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 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.

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

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

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

Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.

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.

Everything works out how it should.

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.

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

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.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

I don't know why I've always loved makeup so much. It helps me get ready for my day and the stage. It really does make a huge difference. We're just so lucky as women to be able to wear it. If you're having a bad day you can change that. Guys don't have a choice and just have to face the world like that. Could you imagine?

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.

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

I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

Every day I fail at something.

I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Fashion is an extension of your personality, and I've always been obsessed. I always want to have something different than everybody else.

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.

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.

If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

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

There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

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

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

I definitely look back at certain moments and don't think I look good...but I know why! I didn't have a hair stylist, I did all my own makeup, and I was going to the local fabric store for all of my outfits.

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

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.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I`m like a peanut butter sandwich.

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

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.

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

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

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

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

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.

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've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

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.

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

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

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.

Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.

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

I have learned to delegate.

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 remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

When you discover your sexuality - like when you're little, you don't notice it. Then suddenly you're walking down the street and you're whistled at. And you're like, Oh, I have this power I didn't know about. And you also discover you're kind of prey. And you're like, Wait, that's confusing.

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.

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

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?

You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.

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.

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.

My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.

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.

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

[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

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

When I think of a legacy, I think of the legacy of being a mom.

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.

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

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

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 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.

Look at your watch now. You're still a super hot female.