Tony Kanal

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.

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.

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.'

What it boils down to is the vibe of the audience. If they're having a good time, we're having a good time. We feed off them.

We judge everything we do by the Clash and U2.

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

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

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.

We're a vegan family, and my kids were brought up vegan, with a respect for all species, and we don't, as humans, have the right to exploit those species.

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

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

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

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.

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

We travel with two personal trainers.

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

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

We love Eighties music.