The pressure of just wanting it to be so great and it’s such a new place to be. After everything I've done trying to kind of sum it up, you know what I mean? Boil it down, it was a lot and everything went wrong building up to it as always… When you have so much experience in it, you just remain calm because you know it's gonna work out. It has to. Some version of it will work out.

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Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

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Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.

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My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

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It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

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Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

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I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

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When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

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The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

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Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.

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I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

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People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

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[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

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Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

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I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them.

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I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

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My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

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I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.

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People will tell me, "You're such a punk rebel," this or that, but I was not that growing up. I was actually a super-sheltered, conservative girl. Now, there was probably a bit of me that was like, "Why do I have to be like that?"

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There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

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I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

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