Quotes from Tony Kanal

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

For us, the music is the most important thing that we're doing. But we also like to give that energy to the crowd, because what they do is take it and give it right back to you.

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

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.

We never forget we're all in this together. But Gwen's an incredible performer and she deserves all the attention she gets.

I can tell when my brother's been borrowing my CDs.

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

We've had lots of breaks, especially over the last 10 years, so to still be getting together and to be able to get on stage and play together is a big deal.

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.

I remember writing Sunday Morning' and Gwen wasn't feeling well that day and I had an acoustic guitar and I started singing, Somebody is feeling quite ill ' and that became Sunday Morning.'

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.

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.

You can do a small club show and the energy is so contained. Then you play these big festivals, and have 50,000 people waving their hands in the air with you.

We judge everything we do by the Clash and U2.

The fact that our band has weathered so much and stayed together for so long and we still get on stage and have a good time together, that's a big deal for us. We don't take that for granted.

You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

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 the little things that stick with you though. Like the boring airport layovers and the bus breaking down in Prague. Those were the real bonding moments.

I think back on it now and even though Gwen and I were living through a tough time with the breakup, as creative partners, that took precedence in our lives. Even though we were going through this really emotional stuff, which obviously ended out coming out in the music, we managed to stay really close and be creative partners through all of that.

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative years, from, like, 13 to 19, what you listen to is so influential, and I think that's just part of our being now.

We would write our songs, then we'd have a programmer come in and add, for lack of a better term, bloops and bleeps on top of everything. Of course, the funny thing is that a lot of the modern-day dance music people are super-influenced by the '70s and '80s stuff that we already love. So it was a natural fit for No Doubt.

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

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