Pop-singer Gwen Stefani looks chic and smart as she poses for the cover of the January 2013 issue of Vogue.
Pop-singer and lead singer of pop band "No Doubt" shed her girlie polka dots as she posed in black for the cover of the January 2013 issue. She talks to the magazine about her "going" voice and her group.
On her voice fading:
"It's not like I have that much control over it. It's what I was given. Sometimes I don't realize how much I'm straining. I have to be really careful because there's so much coming up."
On her group:
"We're really good at it now. We know that we all play a role. But there was a time when it was confusing. It was messy. The breakup, the new relationship, everyone recognizing me. All of that stuff feels like it's so far away now; it's just us as friends, so grateful to be doing what we're doing still."
On their reunion:
"I was on tour for my second solo record in 2007, and I was playing Irvine Meadows in Orange County, which is basically where we grew up. I said, 'Why don't you guys come onstage as a surprise during the encore?' The audience was already so on fire because it's our hometown, and then these guys came out and it was just, like, electric. I'd never felt anything like it before. That was, I think, the moment when we were all like, Arrrgh, let's do this already."
On Her Going Solo:
"I feel like we've always been in our own little lane... Never fitting in. Never a nineties grunge band, never a pop girl band. And it's the same now. I did the solo thing, but I felt like I was trying to play a character in a way, this Alice in Wonderland pretend version of myself. But this, being in No Doubt, is really who I am."
