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" 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
Me
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Looking
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" Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. "
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" Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far. "
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" Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" You can't plan anything, right? You can try. "
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" I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.' "
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" Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked. "
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" I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup. "
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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. "
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" 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?' "
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" You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not. "
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" Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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" I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! 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. And I want to wear cute clothes. "
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" I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! "
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" I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that. "
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" I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry. "
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" Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song. "
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