Quotes by Gwen Stefani

• If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.
• 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.
• My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.
• My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.
• It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
• I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.
• I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.
• 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'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.
• I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
• I work out five days a week, I can't imagine not doing it.
• Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
• I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.
• Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.
• I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
• 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 don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
• I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.
• At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
• At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
• As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
• 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.
• 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.
• Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.