20 of the Best Gwen Stefani Quotes

Gwen Stefani seemed like she might be in the running for having the worst year after she announced she was ending her 13-year-marriage to Gavin Rossdale when it was revealed he had been cheating on her with the nanny.

Just shortly after her announcement, though, Stefani rebounded hard with country hunk and Voice co-star Blake Shelton and has since come out on top. Through social media and public appearances, the two appear to be happier than ever and it seems like Stefani has found love once again.

Seeming to have a good command on living life to the fullest, here are some of the best Gwen Stefani quotes from over the years.

 

1. Act as young as you feel. You’re not getting older; you’re getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. I’m just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It’s not really that big of a deal.
6. Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok
7. I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys’ treehouse. My whole life’s been like that.
8. 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.
9. 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.

   10. 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.

   11. Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.
   12. It’s interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn’t it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.
   13. Writing songs is super intimate. It’s a bit like getting naked.

   14. I don’t have a strong sense of self-worth unless I’m doing something.

   15.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.

   16. 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.
   17. It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
   18. Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I’ve ever done – by far.
   19. 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?’

   20. 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.