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Gwen Stefani, born on October 3, 1969, is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer known for her unique musical style and fashion sense. She was the lead singer of the rock band No Doubt and achieved significant success in her solo career.

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“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.”

Children Passion Gone Imagine Right Now Vanity My Children My Passion Save Me

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“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.”

Children Wanted School Four Mom Dad Mets Married High School Our Children My Mom Mom And Dad

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

Thinking Persons Ends Normal Get Away Normal Life

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“I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!”

Trying Neurotic

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“I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.”

Trying Years Film Next Waiting My Own Records Decided

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“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.”

People Way Want Ends Crazy Emotional Emotional Things

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“Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.”

Children Wanted Opposites Singers

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“I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.”

Want Enough Vain

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“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.”

Thinking Years Kind Feelings Body Lasts Break Needed Work Out Focused Feel Good Last Year

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“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.”

Thinking Giving Real Done Stuff Challenges Doubt Records Birth No Doubt Burned Multiple Giving Birth Burned Out

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“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.”

Thinking Sometimes Able Life Is Next Happened Crazy Sometimes In Life

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“I had gotten pregnant with Apollo, and I didn't plan on that - it was just such a beautiful miracle. Four weeks later they called me and, like "Do you want to do The Voice?" It was this incredible opportunity to do something different.”

Want Different Beautiful Opportunity Voice Four Plans Week Miracle Incredibles Pregnant Apollo

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“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.”

Giving Helping Wanted Incredibles Bugs New Music

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“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."”

Thinking Knows Writing Made Song Lost Accepting Know How Successful Excuse Being Successful Songwriting

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“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.”

People World Writing Mean Song Order Language Blow Around The World Barriers Tall Follow Up Language Barriers

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Heart Littles Play Song Know How Pieces Broken My Heart Guitar Bunch Discovering Naive Broken Up

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“We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with that. And for a garage band, we were massive! We were already successful in our own minds.”

Mind Successful Doubt Fine Band Opposites Radio No Doubt Massive Garage Grunge

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“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.”

Knows Way I Can Reason Turns Felt Happenings Down And Divorce After Divorce Happening For A Reason

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Needs Feels Writing Children Done Protect My Children

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“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.”

People Way Believe Would Be Honest Complicated Best Way Being Honest Affected Truthful Just Believe

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“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.”

Process Creative Growing Up Growing Heard Mom Clothes Picks Patterns My Mom Stores Creative Process Fabric

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“I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.”

Knows Growing Up Growing Fashion Band Orange County Orange County

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“People will tell me, "You're such a punk rebel," this or that, but I was not that growing up. I was actually a super-sheltered, conservative girl. Now, there was probably a bit of me that was like, "Why do I have to be like that?"”

People Girl Bits Growing Up Growing Conservative Rebel Punk

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“When you discover your sexuality - like when you're little, you don't notice it. Then suddenly you're walking down the street and you're whistled at. And you're like, Oh, I have this power I didn't know about. And you also discover you're kind of prey. And you're like, Wait, that's confusing.”

Knows Kind Littles Waiting Streets Walking Sexuality Over You Confusing Prey

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“There are limits put on women, but why should there be?”

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“We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.”

Hard Given Tragedy Hard Times Through Hard Times

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“The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.”

Want Married Intention Vow Being Married

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“[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.”

Want Failing One Thing

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“People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.”

People Thinking Want Affected

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“Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.”

Way Grateful Thank God

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“When I think of a legacy, I think of the legacy of being a mom.”

Thinking Mom Legacy Being A Mom

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“When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.”

Jobs Grows Parent Growing Up Like Me Good Job

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“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.”

Feels Wells Moments Right Now Pregnant

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“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?”

Thinking Knows Trying Past Worry Waste Wasting Time Worrying About The Past

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“Fashion is an extension of your personality, and I've always been obsessed. I always want to have something different than everybody else.”

Different Fashion Personality Obsessed

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“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.”

School Remember Asks Grows Growing Up Draws Wedding Remember When Brides Pictures Of Myself

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“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.”

Song Music Nightmare Songwriting Diaries

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

Huge Husband My Family Priorities My Husband

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“Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.”

Life Is Life Is Short

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“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.”

Knows Persons Creative Passive Being In Love My Boyfriend Creative Power

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

People Thinking Knows Able Fool Geek Dork

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

World Two Different Mom Ego Singers Selfless Being A Mom Different Worlds Two Different Worlds Being Selfless

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“I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.”

People I Can Fighting Cry Husband My Husband

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“I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.”

Way Mean Song Attitude Needed Stuck Stuck Up

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“I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.”

Looks Hollywood Vintage

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“I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'”

People Firsts Different Remember Song Different Peoples

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“I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.”

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“It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.”

Hard Mom Being A Mom

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“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.”

Said Leader Creative Brother Mom My Mom Puppets Eric Peacemaker Older Brother

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“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.”

People Writing Persons Different Feelings I Realized Feel Good Songwriters

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About the Author

Born: October 3, 1969
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 146

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