Tony Kanal

The interesting thing is that as soon as Gwen said, 'Let's go on the road,' we were all like, 'Let's go on the road!' Four adults turned into four giggly children.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

Stick out the bad times because there's always good times coming up. When you come out on the other side, it's amazing.

We're from Anaheim, that's our stomping grounds, that's where we grew up. That's where we practiced in the garage, that's where we went to high school.

It's not We're an awesome band.' The bottom line is, we're just very fortunate.

We know how fickle the music industry is and that you have to focus on the things you can control-writing songs and playing music.

As far as scalping goes, I don't think you'll ever be able to eliminate it.

The one thing I'll say about Dreamcar and the music we've created is that we never set out to do anything specific.

I knew we would eventually get back together, but I don't think any of us really knew when it was going to happen. It had to be a situation where all four of us felt like it was time. It's just too personal and too big, with too much history, to do any other way.

We've always found a muse for a record - something that's a unifying inspiration for the four of us.

Just by default, because I don't have kids on my bus, I'm putting the studio on my bus. Where everybody else is doing their cribs on their bus, I'll have a little studio, so I'm going to invite my bandmates, on days off, to come and keep writing so we can continue the creative process and keep it going through the tour.

On No Doubt's second visit to Paisley Park, sometime around 1999, we were working on a song with Prince called Waiting Room,' which would later be released on our Rock Steady album.

So, I went to see No Doubt play on March 14, 1987 at the show at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, California. A week later I tried out and I joined the band and that was obviously a completely incredible thing for me and a life changing moment.

I think we all realize that, if anyone left, it wouldn't be No Doubt.

As you get older, you're just smarter.

We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

There's no way to escape who we are.

I think if there's one thing that the history of No Doubt has afforded us, it's our opportunity to go and do different creative things, and I think we would be remiss not to explore different avenues.

You don't get that opportunity often to press the reset button, get in a studio, and just be free and creative. I think that's such a special thing to happen.

I always say this: I don't listen to stuff I've worked on when I'm driving in the car.

No Doubt is a very specific thing that's comprised of Tom and Adrian and myself and Gwen, and it will always be that way.

In our minds maybe we think we're younger than we actually are.

Sometimes in my mind I still think I'm 16 onstage and my body tells me that I'm not 16 anymore.

I'm not given the opportunity - nor do I want it - to write my own lyrics.

Think about being onstage playing these songs. I'm opening my personal life up to all these people. But I just can't get attached. I've got to separate myself from the music and lyrics.

We travel with two personal trainers.

For any band to stay together for 10 years proves that something is correct with the chemistry involved in all four of us.

I think going through some of the hard times makes you appreciate it even more when things are going well. It makes you realise how fortunate you are and not to take things for granted.

We're not the kind of band that writes very well on the road.

It's a different world now. You look out there and you can see so many people filming with their cameras nowadays. I can go on YouTube and see last night's show if I want to. It's out there.

We were having so much fun that once we were through each day, Tom, Gwen, and I would go, 'OK, let's go out and join all our friends at a dance club now.' And we would do this daily - go out and have a few drinks and dance the night away and at the end of the night go, 'OK, I'll see ya tomorrow at two o'clock, let's do it again.'

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

When we started, we were in a van and looking for change under the seats so we could buy food. We went from that to having a hit and getting to do things like make music videos with million-dollar budgets.

We got to live though the record industry in its heyday.

We make hotels keep their gyms open late so we can work out.

I don't see us as being part of that 90s revival. We were always a band, even when we weren't playing together.

It's always a learning process, every time you work with someone. You take a bit of what their history is and hopefully you give a little back.

We're getting older and we can't party like we used to.

We've gone through just as much stuff as any band. We just don't choose to sing about it. Well, maybe we do choose to sing about it.

If the audience is bringing it, it always goes up 10 notches.

Festivals have become so fan-friendly they make it so easy and comfortable for people and I think that's the most important thing.

It's honestly all about the audience and if they're having a good time.

If your fans are comfortable, then people are going to be stoked to be there.

One of the best things about being in a band for so long and having any level of success is the opportunity to go and play in different creative sandboxes.

One of the most important things you need when you're doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts with the sound in your ears. If it isn't just right, it throws you off and makes it hard to focus on the music and the performance.

For the first time ever we have our own buses. That's purely out of necessity because Gwen's got her nannies and the babies on her bus, and Tom has his wife and his nanny and baby, and Adrian his wife, nanny and their son.

Songwriting is such an intimate thing, and with people you don't normally write with, you're naked.

Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.

We kind of expected it - the lead singer always gets a lot of attention and a female always gets a lot of attention - but we didn't expect it to be as intense as it was.

Gwen is someone that girls can look up to and feel like they know. She is very Everygirl.