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“Gwen took me to Italy this summer. I’ve never been anywhere. To have Gwen to be the one to introduce me to - cause she’s been there enough to know, ‘Here’s what we need to do’. We were there for about two weeks, and it was just a trip of a lifetime.”

Blake, Pure Country Radio, November 2024

“We were in Rome when they took that picture. Gwen booked this trip, and she booked everything that we did along the way on the trip. It’s like, ‘Yeah, I do whatever, we are in Rome.’ So we get up, and it’s like, ‘Hey, today is the bicycle tour,’ and I’m going, ‘Huh, okay.’ And we go down, and our youngest, Apollo, can’t even get on the thing, and I didn’t want to get on the thing because this is my biggest fear—just that photo. I was on that thing maybe two minutes, and someone took that damn picture.”

Blake, Jimmy Kimmel Live, November 2024

Gwen: “Look how cute my husband is! You could tell, he has the energy of like, ‘My wife told me to do this.’ He had never been to Europe. I’ve been threatening him for like 9 years: ‘I’m taking you. I’m taking you. I’m taking you’. And then it was his birthday. It was my oldest’s 18th birthday, my other’s 16th birthday. I was like, ‘We’re going.’ It took like a year to plan it. I’ve never gone on a vacation like that, ever. It was really over the top. Every day was like, ‘Okay, at the lobby at 10:00 a.m. and your guide will be there to tell you about the latest whatever history that’s been happening.’”

Jimmy: “Did [Blake] like the trip?”

Gwen: “We had so much fun. If I did it again, I would definitely do less stuff.”

Jimmy: “Do you think he will do one again?”

Gwen: “He better.”

Gwen, Jimmy Kimmel Live, October 2024

Gwen and Blake on their trip to Italy, various sources

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“I have a lot that I love. There’s a song called ‘Mine Would Be You’. I love that song, I was like, ‘God, that song is so good.’ But there’s so many good ones. He’s written some amazing songs. He wrote a song about me, which was really fun.”

Gwen, Andy Cohen Live, September 2019

Q: “A song you can listen to on repeat that’s not yours?”

Gwen: “‘Anyone Else’ by Blake Shelton.”

Gwen, The Gayle King Grammy Special, January 2020

“My favorite Gwen Stefani song – I like a lot of her songs and I really like her last album – but I think I gotta go with ‘Underneath It All’. I love that song. I think it’s such a cool record.”

Blake, People Magazine, November 2017

“There’s some good ones, I’m not just saying that. ‘Hella Good’ is one that’s like, every single time I hear it, it’s like, ‘Oh my God’. She had a song called ‘Hey Baby’ that one still stands out. ‘Cool,’ that is a great one — that’s underrated, by the way. Oh, and I love their remake of ‘It’s My Life’ too. I’m just trying to sound cool, I thought it was their song.”

Blake, Taste of Country, December 2024

Q: Favorite No Doubt song?

Blake: “Don’t Speak.”

Blake, Pride.com (Ricky Cornish TikTok), May 2024

Blake and Gwen on each other’s favorite songs, various sources  

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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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“Something that I wanted since I was a little girl is to be married and have this love that I saw my parents have and have babies. That dream was completely ruined; it was crushed, and I had to figure out how I was going to move forward and make a new dream, and God putting Blake in my life was just that miracle.”

Gwen on finding Blake, People Magazine, November 2024

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Q: “How do you guys do anniversary gifts?”

Blake: “She was filming The Voice on the day of our anniversary. They’re the longest days that we experience as spoiled entertainers. Especially for Gwen, she gets up at like 5 a.m and works till 10 or 11 at night. She came in that morning right before she left, and she had already gone through her glam and stuff and she was literally walking out the door, and she had a box, and she was like, ‘This is really stupid, but I looked it up and the three-year anniversary traditional gift is leather.’ And so, I opened this box and it was like leather scented things that you hang in your truck over the rearview mirror, and leather phone case or something like that. And she was like, ‘I know it’s dumb, but it was last minute and I gotta go.’ So that was this year. Our first-year anniversary was a little more special. We had actual gifts and had a moment, but this year was like, ‘Hey, we made it three years, I’ll see you later!’”

Q: “What did you do for her?”

Blake: “GoldBelly is like this app where you can order food from restaurants from all across the country. I had ordered some cakes and things. She loves Italian desserts. I ordered some Italian desserts that we ate the next day, which was Fourth of July. That’s what I did. It was messed up, I’m embarrassed. It wasn’t the best, I admit it.”

Blake on how he and Gwen celebrated their three-year wedding anniversary, The Bobby Bones show, August 2024

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Q: “What is the secret to your strong relationship? How do you keep it strong and better than ever?”

Blake: “The fun thing about that, we don’t really have to work on that, you know. I don’t know why. She’s my best friend, that’s the best way I know to say it. It’s not something that we really have to think about, it’s just there and we have fun with it. Maybe that’s the key, we have so much fun together, whether we’re having a cup of coffee in the morning, or watching a movie, or performing in an arena somewhere. We literally just have so much fun together.”

Blake on Gwen, Access Hollywood, April 2024

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“Blake was like, ‘You should just say Bouquet.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that's perfect! That's exactly what this feels like.’ Because the song Bouquet was about how you have a broken dream—like your entire life collapses, and your family breaks apart, and you're left picking up the pieces, and then you try to move on with your life.”

“And then you kind of look over here, and it's like, ‘Wow, that's love?’ And you see it, and you feel it for the first time in your adult life and you just go, ‘Okay, well, you know what? There can be a new dream. I can make a bouquet, and collect memories, and make this new family that I didn't know I was going to get.’ And it can be even better than the original dream.”

“So, I feel like the whole record kind of reflects on that a little bit. It seemed like the perfect way to describe it. Also, I got engaged the year I started writing this record, and then I got married. So, it's kind of about those years.”

Gwen on naming her new album and her family, Ben +1, November 2024

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Q: “Punk rock Gwen or country Gwen?”

Blake: [whistles] “Man, I like them both. That Hollaback Girl video still gives me chills. I'm gonna have to go with that.”

Blake playing “This or That”, 93Q Country, November 2024 (see also)

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“Blake is an actual unicorn because he doesn't even try. He's the most humble, like, just not-trying guy. He just absorbs love—it's the craziest thing.”

Gwen on Blake, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, November 2024 (see also 1, 2)

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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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Blake: “I think that when we do our Christmas presents, when it says like ‘to so-and-so’, it should say ‘from Blake and Gwen Shelton.’”

Gwen: “Okay, you got it.”

Blake: “Are you in for that?”

Gwen: “Oh, I married you so I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re gonna do.”

Blake: “Okay.” [laughing happily]

Gwen and Blake, Apple Music with Love podcast, November 2021

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Q: “Fill in the blank - ‘It's not Christmas without...’” Gwen: “Oh, Blake! Hello! You make it feel like Christmas, Blake.”

Gwen on Blake, Access Hollywood, December 2024

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“I think we're the biggest celebrators of holidays of any of my friends and family members. We really go for it. Gwen and I love to pull up to the house and see over-the-top Christmas decorations or walk into the house during Thanksgiving and see all the pumpkins.” “Gwen is the perfect person for me to be with because that is one of her passions. So we really lean into the holidays literally as much as we possibly can without just going broke doing it. We love it that much.”

“Gwen’s got the little town set up in the house, the fake snow everywhere. I just love all of that stuff, the gingerbread houses. We really go over the top with it. I'll sit there and stare at that stuff all day long.”

Blake on Gwen and their holiday decorations, People Magazine, December 2023

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Gwen: “I can't even think of a freaking Christmas present for that guy. He says he wants corn—like, just literally bags of corn to grow or give to animals. I said, ‘I'm not going to get you corn.’ He asks me every year. Should I do it this year?”

DJ: “I think you should get him a horse.”

Gwen: “He would be so mad at me. He does love animals, but we're a little bit over anything that poops. We're dealing with an older dog right now, Betty.”

The Pulse with Brady, November 2024

Q: “Do you feel like you have an easy time buying stuff for Gwen or is it harder?”

Blake: “It's pretty easy for me, honestly. I mean, yes, anything Gwen Stefani wants, she can get—probably already has it, or she can get it, you know. But I'll tell you this about Gwen: she can never have enough of some things, and that includes flowers, flower bulbs, flower seeds. You just can't go wrong. Iris bulbs, daffodils, all that stuff. I mean, I'm the one out there digging a hole for this stuff, but she can't have enough of it. I remember last year, it looked like she was going to get everything in the store. And she started opening her presents, and it's like a five-pound sack of zinnia seeds and a box of bulbs.”

Katie & Company, November 2024

Blake: “It’s hard to get her excited about a stock of corn growing, but if you can get her some zinnias going, now she's fired up. Now she wants to be a farmer. I got her [zinnia seeds for Christmas]. I got her sunflower seeds. You name it, if it can grow in Oklahoma, I probably got it for her.”

Extra, April 2024

Gwen and Blake on Christmas presents, various sources (see also)

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“I listen to a lot of playlists that are like 70s soft rock, and one of the things me and Blake love to do together, that we did when we first started hanging out - When I first went to his house and I was like, ‘This is so weird I'm at Blake Shelton's and he's like country.’ It was like a foreign land; do you know what I mean? For me, it was just so far away from the California Anaheim girl that I am. And we were just gonna hang out and on the TV was like all the 80s videos, right? And I was like, ‘Oh, you like 80s music too?’ He's like, ‘Oh, yeah.’ And it was like, ‘Oh, okay.’ I had never even heard one of his songs - not even one. I didn't even know he was a person when I met him. I didn't know who he was or nothing. So, it was interesting because it was like, ‘Oh! We land in this place where we both love all these 80s songs.’ And then what we would do is - He'd put a song on and be like, ‘Do you know this one? Do you know this one?’ And I knew all of them. I was like, ‘Yep, yep. I don't know the title, but I know the song, I could sing along to it.’ And then I'd be like, ‘How do you not know this? Oh, cuz you're younger than me.’ I mean, it's just so fun to do.”

Gwen on visiting Blake’s house for the first time and their love for 80s music, The Pulse with Brady, November 2024

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DJ: “Gwen says that having you in her life is a miracle […] and meeting you was like a second chance at life.”

Blake: “I've seen this stuff too. I've been seeing it because she's released an album on Friday, and so she's doing all the press and stuff. It’s the sweetest, nicest things. I can’t believe it, you know. It’s awesome. It’s amazing to get on this end of life - I’m 48 now - and to have only met my best friend eight or nine years ago is pretty incredible. You just never know what’s out there, what’s around the corner. Everything she’s saying, I feel the same way. It’s been an incredible connection. I don’t know how else to explain it.”

Blake on Gwen, The Bobby Bones Show, November 2024

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“Gwen blows my mind. She is one of the greatest songwriters, I think, of a generation. And the way she goes about it, how honest –how painfully honest – she can be with her lyrics and how warm she can be when the subject matters. I don’t know anybody else who’s been able to be so honest as a writer and just, you know, lay it all out there. And so being able to work with her on that level – it’s been great for me to learn from her.”  

Blake on Gwen’s songwriting, CMT Hot 20, November 2017