Quotes from Tony Kanal

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

We've been through the experience of being in high school and starting a band. Then we were also a garage band, while we were going to college, trying to make ends meet.

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

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

I'm not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it's just a reaction that kids have, that you don't really listen to stuff your parents listened to. I didn't think it was cool.

We played one show in Bangalore in a field where they'd never had a rock show before and when we got there, they were actually cutting the grass with scissors.

We would spend every morning drinking rum and Cokes or Red Stripes for breakfast, to get our heads in the right space. It's a wonder we got stuff done.

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.

We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company would find studio time in the middle of the night - literally, that was so cheap that we could afford to do it.

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.

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

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

Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.

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

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

Adrian has golf, Tom has surfing, Gwen has Gavin, I guess, and this is all I have - I wake, eat and sleep No Doubt.

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.

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.

Just the fact that that song was 'Just a Girl,' people are going to focus on Gwen. They're going to focus on Gwen because she is the lead singer; because the first single that we released was 'Just a Girl,' and it is very autobiographical; and because she is who she is. And she is the kind of person that people like to focus on.

I'm just always impressed with what Gwen pulls off. She's amazing.

We were on tour for 'Tragic Kingdom' for 28 months. We were going through the breakup, and in every interview we were talking about it so we were opening this wound on an hourly basis.

Starting out, you're just doing it because you love it so much; that's what I remember about us. Looking back now, some of the things that seemed like big obstacles seem so small now - 'Wow, how will we get through this?' But we always did.

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