Top 100 Gwen Stefani Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never say never. In your life you never know what’s going to happen next.”

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Gwen Stefani

3. “Everything works out how it should.”

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Gwen Stefani

5. “No one can force me to do something unless I’m passionate about it.”

— Gwen Stefani

6. “I have learned to delegate.”

— Gwen Stefani

7. “Every day I fail at something.”

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8. “Look at your watch now. You’re still a super hot female.”

— Gwen Stefani

9. “Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.”

— Gwen Stefani

10. “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

11. “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

12. “I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that’s cuter than you?”

— Gwen Stefani

13. “I’ve always loved fashion – it’s a reflection of your personality.”

— Gwen Stefani

14. “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

15. “After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”

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

— Gwen Stefani

17. “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

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

— Gwen Stefani

19. “Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.”

— Gwen Stefani

20. “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

21. “My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.”

— Gwen Stefani

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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

25. “I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.”

— Gwen Stefani

26. “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

27. “Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I’ve ever done – by far.”

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28. “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

29. “I’m like a peanut butter sandwich.”

— Gwen Stefani

30. “I would love to learn to play something so I don’t have to rely on someone to collaborate with.”

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Gwen Stefani

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

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34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.”

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38. “Writing songs is super intimate. It’s a bit like getting naked.”

— Gwen Stefani

39. “If you’re not Prince, you’re never going to sound like Prince.”

— Gwen Stefani

40. “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

41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “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

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

— Gwen Stefani

45. “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

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.”

— Gwen Stefani

50. “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