It's an incredible honor to receive this year's Fashion Icon Award, as an artist, musician and entrepreneur, fashion has always served as a creative outlet for me to express my personality and music. I am so grateful to receive Fashion Icon Award and continue to be inspired by those who stand apart and embrace their unique style and individuality.

Gwen Stefani

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

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fabulous getting-older self

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

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hard-times given tragedy

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

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fool hundred

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

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sacrifice high-heels sometimes

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

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aerosmith never-say-never next

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

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life-is-short life-is

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

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one-you-love bad-day love-is

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

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halloween wake-up fashion

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

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passionate force

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.

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life-changing writing song

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

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able people thinking

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.

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music diaries song

People might think you can turn creativity on and off,

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creativity simple thinking

I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.

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would-be believe people

Wakin' up to find another day. The moon got lost again last night, but now the sun has finally had its say.

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moon night funny

I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.

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girl hate people

I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.

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girl dresses

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That’s what's really cute to me.

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sexy cute men

I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.

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girl want looks

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

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divorce down-and way