Top 35 Gwen Stefani Quotes

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

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

I’m vain enough to want do a movie again.

I work out five days a week; I can’t imagine not doing it.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

I have to be creative to be happy.

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 like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I’m wearing makeup.

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want – it’s like an excuse for Halloween every day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.

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

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That’s a huge, huge thing.

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?’

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.’

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

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

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.

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

I have to tell everyone everything that’s going on. It is different once you’re married, because that’s sacred.

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.

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!

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.

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.