Quotes from Gwen Stefani

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

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

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.

Every day I fail at something.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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!

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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