SHEFANI QUOTES

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Q: “I’ve got to ask you about this line in the song. It hits me hard. It’s very clever. I’ve got to hear the story behind this: Wonder why you took a risk/On a broken heart you cannot fix.”

Gwen: “When you go through your family breaking up and falling apart […], you just think, ‘I blew it, my life is over.’ And the idea that someone - like tall, hot, handsome, talented, sexy, funny, all the things that is Blake Shelton - would be like, ‘Hey, you want to make out with me?’ I would be like, ‘What?’ That would never happen to me.”

“That is a risky thing to do - to say, ‘I’m going to love you, I’m going to love your kids and I’m going to do this with you. I know what I want. I want you. You are my pretty girl.’ That’s what my life is. I’m glad that that line - that you are feeling it because there is so much behind it. And originally it was ‘a broken girl’ and when Blake hopped on it, he changed it to ‘a broken heart.’”

Gwen on Blake, Acoustic Sunrise, March 2024

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Q: “How do you know Gwen loves you?”

Blake: “Well, she’s very affectionate. You don’t pass Gwen in the hall that she didn’t stop you and give you a kiss or a hug or something.”

Blake on his and Gwen’s love languages, The Andie Summers Show, Country 102.5, November 2024

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“I was looking back at myself and thinking, 'What was my prettiest time? Where did I peak — inside and out, you know?' And I look at the pictures from 2015, when I met Blake, and somebody actually loved me for the first time, and I felt what love really felt like. He was actually giving himself to me, and I was receiving and giving myself back — that is love.”

Gwen on "Pretty", 103.5 KTU, November 2024

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“I've learned so much from her, and she's really the person that's helped me get in touch with my faith and get serious about it and not just something that you say at an awards show, you know? She reminds me to think about it all day long. When you're around her, everything she sees, she sees God in it. And it’s really special to be around her because her faith is alive. It's incredible to be around her. And she's so happy about it, and she loves to share it to anybody that's listening. It’s inspiring to be around her.”

Blake on Gwen’s faith, Today's Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen, May 2025

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“I knew she would just bring something to the song that it really needed — her charisma, her energy, and also just the cool factor of Gwen Stefani. I know she's my wife — we've been together for 10 years now — but I still get starstruck by her if I haven't seen her in a week. It's like, ‘Oh my God.’ She just has this thing about her that makes her different and special. And so, to be able to bring that to my albums, I'm going to ask her to do it every freaking time, you know. Why wouldn't I?”

Blake being in awe of Gwen, CityNews, May 2025

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“Gwen took me to Italy this summer. I’ve never been anywhere. To have Gwen to be the one to introduce me to - cause she’s been there enough to know, ‘Here’s what we need to do’. We were there for about two weeks, and it was just a trip of a lifetime.”

Blake, Pure Country Radio, November 2024

“We were in Rome when they took that picture. Gwen booked this trip, and she booked everything that we did along the way on the trip. It’s like, ‘Yeah, I do whatever, we are in Rome.’ So we get up, and it’s like, ‘Hey, today is the bicycle tour,’ and I’m going, ‘Huh, okay.’ And we go down, and our youngest, Apollo, can’t even get on the thing, and I didn’t want to get on the thing because this is my biggest fear—just that photo. I was on that thing maybe two minutes, and someone took that damn picture.”

Blake, Jimmy Kimmel Live, November 2024

Gwen: “Look how cute my husband is! You could tell, he has the energy of like, ‘My wife told me to do this.’ He had never been to Europe. I’ve been threatening him for like 9 years: ‘I’m taking you. I’m taking you. I’m taking you’. And then it was his birthday. It was my oldest’s 18th birthday, my other’s 16th birthday. I was like, ‘We’re going.’ It took like a year to plan it. I’ve never gone on a vacation like that, ever. It was really over the top. Every day was like, ‘Okay, at the lobby at 10:00 a.m. and your guide will be there to tell you about the latest whatever history that’s been happening.’”

Jimmy: “Did [Blake] like the trip?”

Gwen: “We had so much fun. If I did it again, I would definitely do less stuff.”

Jimmy: “Do you think he will do one again?”

Gwen: “He better.”

Gwen, Jimmy Kimmel Live, October 2024

Gwen and Blake on their trip to Italy, various sources

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“I have a lot that I love. There’s a song called ‘Mine Would Be You’. I love that song, I was like, ‘God, that song is so good.’ But there’s so many good ones. He’s written some amazing songs. He wrote a song about me, which was really fun.”

Gwen, Andy Cohen Live, September 2019

Q: “A song you can listen to on repeat that’s not yours?”

Gwen: “‘Anyone Else’ by Blake Shelton.”

Gwen, The Gayle King Grammy Special, January 2020

“My favorite Gwen Stefani song – I like a lot of her songs and I really like her last album – but I think I gotta go with ‘Underneath It All’. I love that song. I think it’s such a cool record.”

Blake, People Magazine, November 2017

“There’s some good ones, I’m not just saying that. ‘Hella Good’ is one that’s like, every single time I hear it, it’s like, ‘Oh my God’. She had a song called ‘Hey Baby’ that one still stands out. ‘Cool,’ that is a great one — that’s underrated, by the way. Oh, and I love their remake of ‘It’s My Life’ too. I’m just trying to sound cool, I thought it was their song.”

Blake, Taste of Country, December 2024

Q: Favorite No Doubt song?

Blake: “Don’t Speak.”

Blake, Pride.com (Ricky Cornish TikTok), May 2024

Blake and Gwen on each other’s favorite songs, various sources  

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“He’s turning 16 and he has been driving on the ranch because Blake, when they were kids, bought these little cars on the ranch. So, the kids kinda know how to drive. It’s completely different from driving, obviously, with a license in L.A.”

“At the ranch there was an old truck that was Blake’s dad’s. And his dad has passed, but it was sitting there, no dashboard, literally rusted apart… He’s been begging for that truck for like, years. He’s like, ‘Please, I really want that truck’. He ended up getting the truck last year. Blake gave it to him, put a dashboard in. He called the truck Dorothy, which is Blake’s mom’s name. So he’s been driving that around.”

Gwen on Blake gifting Zuma his dad’s old truck, Jennifer Hudson Show, October 2024 (see also)

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“Something that I wanted since I was a little girl is to be married and have this love that I saw my parents have and have babies. That dream was completely ruined; it was crushed, and I had to figure out how I was going to move forward and make a new dream, and God putting Blake in my life was just that miracle.”

Gwen on finding Blake, People Magazine, November 2024

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Q: “How do you guys do anniversary gifts?”

Blake: “She was filming The Voice on the day of our anniversary. They’re the longest days that we experience as spoiled entertainers. Especially for Gwen, she gets up at like 5 a.m and works till 10 or 11 at night. She came in that morning right before she left, and she had already gone through her glam and stuff and she was literally walking out the door, and she had a box, and she was like, ‘This is really stupid, but I looked it up and the three-year anniversary traditional gift is leather.’ And so, I opened this box and it was like leather scented things that you hang in your truck over the rearview mirror, and leather phone case or something like that. And she was like, ‘I know it’s dumb, but it was last minute and I gotta go.’ So that was this year. Our first-year anniversary was a little more special. We had actual gifts and had a moment, but this year was like, ‘Hey, we made it three years, I’ll see you later!’”

Q: “What did you do for her?”

Blake: “GoldBelly is like this app where you can order food from restaurants from all across the country. I had ordered some cakes and things. She loves Italian desserts. I ordered some Italian desserts that we ate the next day, which was Fourth of July. That’s what I did. It was messed up, I’m embarrassed. It wasn’t the best, I admit it.”

Blake on how he and Gwen celebrated their three-year wedding anniversary, The Bobby Bones show, August 2024

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Q: “What is the secret to your strong relationship? How do you keep it strong and better than ever?”

Blake: “The fun thing about that, we don’t really have to work on that, you know. I don’t know why. She’s my best friend, that’s the best way I know to say it. It’s not something that we really have to think about, it’s just there and we have fun with it. Maybe that’s the key, we have so much fun together, whether we’re having a cup of coffee in the morning, or watching a movie, or performing in an arena somewhere. We literally just have so much fun together.”

Blake on Gwen, Access Hollywood, April 2024

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“Blake was like, ‘You should just say Bouquet.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that's perfect! That's exactly what this feels like.’ Because the song Bouquet was about how you have a broken dream—like your entire life collapses, and your family breaks apart, and you're left picking up the pieces, and then you try to move on with your life.”

“And then you kind of look over here, and it's like, ‘Wow, that's love?’ And you see it, and you feel it for the first time in your adult life and you just go, ‘Okay, well, you know what? There can be a new dream. I can make a bouquet, and collect memories, and make this new family that I didn't know I was going to get.’ And it can be even better than the original dream.”

“So, I feel like the whole record kind of reflects on that a little bit. It seemed like the perfect way to describe it. Also, I got engaged the year I started writing this record, and then I got married. So, it's kind of about those years.”

Gwen on naming her new album and her family, Ben +1, November 2024

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Q: “Punk rock Gwen or country Gwen?”

Blake: [whistles] “Man, I like them both. That Hollaback Girl video still gives me chills. I'm gonna have to go with that.”

Blake playing “This or That”, 93Q Country, November 2024 (see also)

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“Blake is an actual unicorn because he doesn't even try. He's the most humble, like, just not-trying guy. He just absorbs love—it's the craziest thing.”

Gwen on Blake, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, November 2024 (see also 1, 2)

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“I consider myself about 80 percent an Okie.”

Zuma, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, November 2024

“Everywhere I go, people are asking me about Zuma and, obviously, our connection with country music. He’s our middle son. He’s pretty much grown up half the time in Oklahoma. Not that that means you gotta be a country singer, but I think when he drives around with me and hears songs on the radio about back roads, the next thing you know, he’s like, ‘We are on a back road. Oh my God, a bonfire! We are burning stuff right now.’ He starts realizing: These songs are about my life.”

Blake, CMT Hot 20, November 2024

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Blake: “I think that when we do our Christmas presents, when it says like ‘to so-and-so’, it should say ‘from Blake and Gwen Shelton.’”

Gwen: “Okay, you got it.”

Blake: “Are you in for that?”

Gwen: “Oh, I married you so I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re gonna do.”

Blake: “Okay.” [laughing happily]

Gwen and Blake, Apple Music with Love podcast, November 2021