Latest Gwen Stefani Quotes from Interviews

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Fashion, Personality, Different

• 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?

  Gwen Stefani

  Past, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Moments, Wells, Feels

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Jobs, Growing Up, Parent

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Thinking, Being A Mom

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Grateful, Thank God, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Failing, One Thing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Married, Intention

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Hard Times, Tragedy, Given

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Waiting, Over You, Confusing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Limits, Should

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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?"

  Gwen Stefani

  Girl, Growing Up, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Gwen Stefani

  Fashion, Growing Up, Orange

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Growing Up, Clothes

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Believe, People, Would Be

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Divorce, Down And, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Successful, Opposites, Doubt

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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."

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Voice

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Giving, Bugs, Helping

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.wbur.org