Gwen Stefani Quotes

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

The Gandhi family is a pampered lot. They have only dealt with people at their beck and call.

I've lived an easy life, the life you dream about. And at that time I thought it was normal, but it's so far from normal.

I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

Wonders will never cease.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.