Gwen Stefani Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Writing, People, Feel Good

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Artistic

• 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

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Believe, Writing, Hard Times

  "The All-Star: Gwen Stefani". Interview with Candice Rainey, www.elle.com. May 4, 2011.

• Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Naked

• 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

  Selfish, Writing, Thinking

  "No Doubt's Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal on the Band's First New Album in Eleven Years". Interview with Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. August 19, 2012.

• I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Life Changing, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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."

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.wbur.org

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