Quotes

Here is a list of our most memorable quotes from the band, they are not in any particular order just seperated by member.

Gwen Stefani

“I feel like Cinderella right now.”
“The only guys brave enough to approach me are gay men!”
“BET doesn’t play white girls.”
“I’m a dinosaur here.”
“Oh my God, my underarms are like waterpits!”
“Why am I cranky now? Oh, I’m going to get my period.”
“I’m almost as famous as Lindsay Lohan. I have paparazzi following me, I must be famous. That doesn’t sound like a hit.”
“Look how fat I [was], no wonder you broke up with me [Tony]. How gross.”
“At the end of the day, my ideas are too expensive.”
“They don’t get to know, they think I have the natural J.Lo glow.”
“I didn’t work out today so I feel shitty.”
“That’s stupid, with two or three o’s.”
“I want a day off…how many jobs can you have?”
“I want to hear remixes.”
“My shoes got hurt! Someone get a band-aid!”
“I sang the worst I ever sang, but I don’t care, what am I supposed to do?”
What did you do today, Gwen?
“I went over in the morning to my parents to have breakfast, then I went over to see my husband do the tennis tournament, then I went to get my hair and my makeup done. Then I went over to Anaheim Stadium. I kicked ass, I sang shit. I sang shit, but I kicked.”
“I need to be writing hits not signing autographs.”
“I want to get ripped for my husband.”
“I always want to do things for the right reasons. I have alot of catholic guilt.”
“I should just start hanging out with him [paparazzi]. Put him on salary to not take my picture.”
“Duh, hello, I’m hot!”
“I was chubby… I wanted to get skinny. I’d wear things that covered up what I didn’t like about myself, like baggy pajama pants because I liked the old-men prints.”
“I’m like ‘Cool, they’re really getting into it.’ And then all of a sudden it’s ‘Show me your tits!’ I’m up there making a point about how I feel being a chick. Even though maybe the song is not as cool as a Courtney Love song, it IS my life and how I’ve been meant to feel throughout ten years of being in a man’s business, and suddenly they just totally miss the whole point and I just feel like a whore. Like, what am I doing up there in front of all these boys with a little top on? Maybe I’m asking for it, you know?”
“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.”
“Our record-company guys introduced us. And I just remember looking up at him [Gavin], because he is very tall, and going, Wow. He looked so familiar to me; in his eyes, there was something about him. I said something like, “You’ve got gorgeous eyes,” and I never say stuff like that. It was really cheesy, but it just came out. I don’t know what he said to me right then, he was just being cool, but that night he told me I was gorgeous. I thought that was pretty great.”
“This record [Return of Saturn] is for me-I’m being selfish. I’ve been assessing my life over the last couple years-like what am I doing. There are a lot of love songs on the album, but there are others that are about questioning life. ‘Six Feet Under’ is all about the cycle of life for instance. There is a lot of admission on it; I don’t really know who will be able to relate. My dad?”
“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.”
“I wasnt a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.”
“Being in a band you can wear whatever you want – it’s like an excuse for halloween everyday.”
“I made out with the keyboard player from Fishbone, and he tried to take advantage of the situation and I was not about to, and he got really mad.”
“I think I’ve been able to fool a lot of people because I know I’m a dork. I’m a geek.”
“I’m a girl in a punk band with all guys. Sure, there have been jerks shouting out obscene things.”
“I don’t have any advise on relationships, I’m like everyone else trying to find my way.”
“Yeah, Tony is my favorite person outside Gavin. Tony’s my creative partner and my friend. He’s someone I can always depend on and I know cares about me and wouldn’t try to do anything to hurt me.”
“So I just feel like the music that’s out there right now…-I’m the first one-and I think we all are-to embrace a good song. “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” that makes me happy. I like to sing that song, it’s a good song. But at the same time it seems like a lot of that stuff is just so, like…They do all the marketing just to make sure they can sell the Barbie dolls.”
“I’m so proud about how far the band has come, and I just want to go on making great music with these guys for as long as possible.”
“So I’ll be working out, and I’ll think ‘What am I doing?’. I need some candy.”
“My niece and I look pretty much the same in a bathing suit top.”
“The pit to me is like the strangest reason for guys to feel eachother up.”
“If I look bad one day, who really cares?”
“A girl wants to look sexy, but what’s important is that people take you seriously as a human.”
“Music is the #1 thing that effects everything.”
“After you make a fool out of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
“Tony offered to leave the band because he loved me so much, but I wouldn’t let him.” When Gwen was asked if she would leave the band,“Fuck no!”
“I enjoy being a little chubby. I love life, and if I want a rad slice of pizza I’ll have it.”
“I’m just a dork from Anaheim who didn’t think I could have an influence on anyone.”
“Oh, at this one MTV party, Snoop Dogg’s cousin tried to pick on me. He was sitting there with, like, no shirt on, and he goes, “So when we getting married?” I just started laughing and was like, “You are the first guy who’s tried to pick on me in like five years!”
“Oh my God, I have so much to be thankful for, it’s out of control. I’m thankful that we finally finished our record, and I’m thankful that we got to go around the world again and play our songs for people, and that people showed up, and that people got joy out of our music. I’m really thankful for that.”
“We played an old, old song called ‘Total Hate’ afterward so{Eric} did a stage dive and totally hurt himself, like, really badly.”
“Let’s face it, my whole life fell apart last year, My brother left the band and Tony broke up with me; the two most important things in my life. But at the same time, you get the good with the bad. Tragic Kingdom, the album, every song is about Tony basically. There’s some really cool songs that came out of the break-up.”
“I Love being a girl. I love everything about it. I would never trade it.”
“He’s Like My stylist now. He hates the way I dress. Well, he didn’t like it when I had my yellow bondage pants.”
“Growing up, my brother was the one with all the talent and all the focus. I had him, so I didn’t have to do anything, you know?”
“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
“There was this kid sitting in the front row wearing a Gwen shirt that he’d painted himself, He was singing along with every word and crying . I smiled at him and said ‘It’s okay.’ I wanted to say, ‘I understand; I’ve done that too.’ When you see someone like that, you realize how long they’ve spent listening to your record and how it’s going impact the rest of their life. Whenever they hear No Doubt, it will bring them back to this time period. That’s really special.”
“I can’t believe this is my life, This is my loser band?”
“Everybody just wants to focus on the girl. I think that’s the one outside stress thing that has come into the band. We’re getting over it. The others sit and bag on me constantly now. Like, ‘On MTV News, Gwen broke her foot last night blah blah blah…and in less important news, Tom Dumont was found dead.’”
“I look at our band as kinda like the Police, They had the reggae / ska thing happening, but they’re a rock band. Our roots are ska, but ska just bubbles under in our music. We don’t label our sound by that term.”
“Orange County rules.”
“We’ve gotten more than we’ve ever wanted.”
“I never thought that me, this loser from Anaheim, could have any effect on anyone, I never had any creativity or anything. Then, suddenly, I’m what everyone is looking at. It’s such a strange thing, but its so exciting, ’cause I remember the way those two little girls from yesterday felt. You have to keep it in mind, whether or not you feel like shit or whatever. You think that maybe if you bring a little happiness to these kids, they’re going to remember that. Like I would talk about Madness, they’re going to talk about No Doubt? How cool is that!?”
“Adrian’s Trying to be like the Sublime Guys.”
“I’m Just A Dork From Anaheim.”
“I don’t know anything.”
“I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that’s cuter than you?”
“I came up with Magic’s in the Makeup because I’m really bad at handeling the criticism of people saying I’m not real, that I’m only acting. Well I do only act, but who doesn’t? It helps me be honest to the people I’m with. When I’m with my parents I’m like the sweet little daughter, when I’m with friends I can be a real bitch, or a diva…I’m just a dramatic person. Sometimes I feel like I have multiple personalities that in the end form Gwen Stefani. But most of all: I’m real.”

Adrian Young

“There’s no failing from here on out. Sure we’d all like another hit record, but I don’t think any of us are gonna need intensive therapy if our next album only sells 500,000 copies. We’ll be okay.”
“We still think of having normal lives, because ‘this’ is an alternate reality”
“It doesn’t hurt that people like to look at Gwen.”
“If someone doesnt like our album, i have no problem with that. If someone doesnt like it because 2 million other people do, then fuck off. too bad.”

Tom Dumont

“This is something I’ve wanted for so many years now and I never really thought it would happen. It’s like a dream come true to hear our songs on the radio. I know that the music industry and people that listen to music these days are pretty fickle and this may be our one-hit wonder and it maybe gone tomorrow, but we’re going to have a lot of fun in the meantime.”
“Having 12-year-old girls like our band and be passionate about it makes me so happy, “I’d rather have that than guys who just want to jump on each other and hit each other.”
“I’m never gonna quit. Especially if someone tells me to.”

Tony Kanal

“Like when we first heard ourselves on KROQ, which is the station we all grew up on. They played us between U2 and the Offspring, and it was like, ‘What’s going on here?’ We couldn’t even believe it. Then we started doing shows with other bands we love, and that was just too much. And now, we’re like, ‘I can’t believe we’re on the same stage as the Foo Fighters!’”
“That’s exactly what happened, everything was awesome until, ‘Oooh, big rock star. Well, Tony, he has a private jet. Bye-bye!’ That’s how I remember it.”
“The success we’ve achieved came slowly, over 10 years of sweat and fun; because of that steady build, we have been able to remain centered and focused on who we are as individuals and what we want as a band. It’s always been about being honest and true. I check myself every day to make sure of that, to make sure I am the same person.”
“It’s human nature to want things to get better and better, but you know what? Things are about as good as they get at this point.”