“The Voice” is kicking off it’s 20th season, and 10th year on the air Monday, and Blake Shelton is still surprised it’s lasted this long. “To be honest, I didn’t think the show was gonna last,” he tells “People,” “In fact one of the first conversations I ever had with Adam (Levine) was, ‘Man, how stupid is this?'”

Of course in addition to the show’s success, it is responsible for Blake meeting his now fiancée Gwen Stefani, but it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. He says they met when she performed on the show, and then she was eventually announced as coach, with Blake noting, “It was very much an industry-type meeting, and I told people, ‘I met Gwen Stefani. That’s crazy.'”

Gwen was also still married to Gavin Rossdale at the time, and had just had a baby, so she and Blake really weren’t even friends back then. In fact, the thing that stood out most to Blake had to do with her wheels.

“The thing I remember saying about her when people would ask was, ‘Oh my God, that girl is unbelievable. She drives a minivan to work!,’” he says. “I thought rock stars drove Rolls-Royces, and Gwen was driving a black minivan.”

Source: People