Stefani Quotes & Sayings

I've always loved fashion - it's a reflection of your personality. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod ... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood. — Olga Kurylenko

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

You can't plan anything, right? You can try. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed. — Gwen Stefani

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

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

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

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! — Gwen Stefani

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all. — Lady Gaga

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? — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that's cuter than you? — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo. — Kat Graham

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay. — Lady Gaga

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song. — Gwen Stefani

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? — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit. — Ellie Goulding

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. — Gwen Stefani

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

Everything works out how it should. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

I have learned to delegate. — Gwen Stefani

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. — Marina And The Diamonds

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

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

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?' — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

The real model for health, however, is more complicated. The real model goes like this: eating low-quality foods leads to overeating and metabolic brokenness, which makes you overweight and sick. — Stefani Ruper

I do not give a damn what I look like, I don't. I wish I could pay attention because Gwen Stefani, say, looks flawless. Of course, when I'm on red carpets, I'm nervous, sweaty, and weird. — Selena Gomez

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

Your hatred is my foreplay." - Julian King — Z. Stefani

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

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

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing. — Gwen Stefani

I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani. — Usher

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. — Gwen Stefani

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

I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage. — Katy Perry

I think my ultimate fashion icon would have to be Gwen Stefani. I love her persona; I love what she embodies and represents. I love the fact that she was a girl fronting a band of boys in No Doubt. — Tinashe

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style. — Ellie Goulding

I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me! — Rita Ora

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. — Courtney Love

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

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! — Gwen Stefani

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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.' — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani

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. — Gwen Stefani