Quotes from Tony Kanal

As pop songs, the early stuff like Electricity' and Enola Gay' were such inspirations to Gwen and I, especially melodically. They inspired us to try and do our own John Hughes prom-scene movie moment kind of songs.

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.

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 were making 'Tragic Kingdom,' and we were kind of battling with the record company. It was just being drawn-out, in the same kind of situation where we were all working, we all had jobs, we were going to school.

The 'Beacon Street' record was kind of like a b-side to 'Tragic Kingdom,' but it came out before 'Tragic Kingdom,' so it's a weird situation.

We travel with two personal trainers.

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.

As you get older, you're just smarter.

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.

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.

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

Just A Girl' was the first song that was on the radio for us. That was incredible because to hear that song on KROQ-FM in L.A., where we grew up, and you've listened to KROQ your whole life, and then to hear it on the radio was unbelievable.

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.

We know how fickle the public and the music industry is.

Bad Brains are so underrated.

We wrote the early idea for Undone' but it just wasn't working. Then Gwen had to go to England for some family stuff and when she was there, she sent me an email saying that she had an idea for what to do with Undone.' She sent me these demos and she was totally right, there was something there.

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.

There was always a real camaraderie with No Doubt. It was always more than the music.

No Doubt will always be there; we've experienced things together that no one else will ever experience with us. It's a family that will always be there, and the music we've created will always be there.

There's a real family aspect to No Doubt. We all grew up together and we've experienced so much together.

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.

To be abundantly clear, No Doubt is four people, and that could never be recreated or replicated.

It's exciting because No Doubt has never played Rock in Rio before. It's actually an honor to be a part of such an iconic festival and the really cool thing is that the lineup is so diverse and it's got something for everyone.

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