I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

We’re just so lucky as women to be able to wear [makeup]. If you’re having a bad day, you can change that. — Gwen Stefani

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

We’re just trying to have fun. — Gwen Stefani

I have to be creative to be happy. — Gwen Stefani

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

My mom was always making me clothes. We’d go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

When you have new music it’s such a miracle and to be able to go live with it… the songs become a whole other version of themselves. — 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’s not about me–it’s like, ‘How can I help you?’ And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly. — Gwen Stefani

I didn’t know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed. — Gwen Stefani

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

At a certain point I’m going to want to have a family. — 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

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

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. — Gwen Stefani

Marriage] was the one thing I didn’t want to fail at. — Gwen Stefani

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

Never say never. In your life you never know what’s going to happen next. — Gwen Stefani

As a famous person you think how you’re gonna end it, get away and have a normal life. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

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. — 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

The moment you get pregnant, you’re tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now. — Gwen Stefani

Act as young as you feel. You’re not getting older; you’re getting more entitled to be your fabulous self. — 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

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

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way. — 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

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

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

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

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

On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We’re a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat. — Gwen Stefani

I don’t fight with people–like, I can barely fight with my husband because I’ll just start crying instead. — Gwen Stefani

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

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

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did. — 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 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

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 dIdn’t expect to be doIng [ the vegas show ] and’ the voIce’ at the same tIme, I just feel lIke I’m alIve In a way I’ve never been before, because I have to be ! because doIng both Is a lot. — Gwen Stefani

I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It’s ridiculous! — 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

Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time. — Gwen Stefani

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? — Gwen Stefani

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I’m having right now being gone. — Gwen Stefani