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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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“I do a lot of dad stuff. I guess the most cliché dad thing I do - every single day when the kids get home from school, Apollo, our youngest, we throw the football for about 30 minutes. He's got this thing, he loves to jump on the trampoline while I throw the football at him so he can do like the crazy Odell Beckham catches and Deandre Hopkins stuff.”

Blake on the most dad thing he does, Taste of Country, November 2024

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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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“I get to teach them the country, you know, and I love that. Whether it's music, whether it's literally getting out, getting their hands in the dirt or being out on the ranch, seeing the animals, whatever, you know? I absolutely love being the person that gets to introduce them to that stuff.”

Blake on the boys, Entertainment Tonight, April 2024

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“Our middle son Zuma has also been working on - he has been working on music all this time as well. The only difference is Zuma is a dyed-in-the-wool country singer. So, Gwen’s influence is all over Kingston’s music and finally I have some influence on one of the kids. He found this on his own. Kids are growing up - they are getting all kinds of stuff thrown at them these days and he’s decided that he’s a country guy. He’s pretty much grown up half the time out here in Oklahoma, right here in Tishomingo.”

Blake introducing Zuma, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, July 2024

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“[The boys changed my live] in every possible way. I learned quickly, not because anything happened, but just, you know, reading the room, you really have to take a step back. When people say it's not about you anymore when you have a kid, I mean, it truly - I think, if you're doing it right, it's not about you anymore. That's true. Anything I do gets on them too and I take that hard, I take that serious. I don’t even have [social media] anymore because there’s no upside to it compared to what could be the downside. I don’t want anything I ever do or say to get on the kids. So, in that way they changed my life a lot, you know, because I just want to step back, and this is their time.”

Blake on the boys, Entertainment Tonight, April 2024

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“Balance is the hardest thing, but it's also the most important—being with my family, having time with Blake where we just watch movies.”  

Gwen, Shape, October 2019

“If people knew how not exciting [our life] truly is, it's that tame. I've said this to her before, the timing of when we have gotten together at this point in our life, our batteries don't charge up as much as they used to. We’ve done so much traveling and touring and work the first half of our life that now we’re just like, ‘Hey, I’m good to put my sweatpants on at 6 p.m. and watch Ozark eight times tonight if you want to.’ That’s literally our life now and we love it.”

Blake, People Magazine, December 2022

“We watch kids watch YouTube is what we watch at home. As one kid gets older and moves on, the next kid moves into - It’s called ‘Dude perfect’. It’s a great show, by the way, that’s actually one that I enjoy watching.”

Blake, E! News, May 2023  

“I remember lying in bed with Blake, and the palette had come out and he’s like, ‘Oh, let’s go watch another video.’ Because all these girls were taking the makeup palettes and making their own looks.”

Gwen, Life with Marianna, September 2023

Gwen and Blake on their home life, various sources

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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