[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.