Pop-rocker Gwen Stefani called into Ryan Seacrest's radio show this morning to talk about the progress of the promised No Doubt record.

Stefani spoke about the time she met with Interscope's head honcho, Jimmy Iovine, and revealed that he saw star quality in her from the first instance:

"When we first played for him, he basically took me aside and privately said "you're gonna be a star"'. 

Seacrest then turned the conversation to the album the band is working on and was excited to hear that it is more than likely going to be released this year:

"We've been going for a while trying to make this record, and it's been super challenging but really fun trying to enjoy the moment of writing and creating, and I'm going over to see Jimmy today to play him some tracks"

"It's gonna be out this year. I really, really think it's gonna be out. We've got about ten songs done and we wanna just go in and do a few little, just in case, a few more and it's a really good record."

"I can't wait to go out there and go on tour again!"

She styled the contestants on a recent episode of 'American Idol' and now that fashion week is over she can refocus her attention to working with No Doubt, and you can listen to the full interview that aired today, April 9, here: