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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
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.
I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool 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.
We never forget we're all in this together. But Gwen's an incredible performer and she deserves all the attention she gets.
Songwriting is such an intimate thing, and with people you don't normally write with, you're naked.
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.
To be abundantly clear, No Doubt is four people, and that could never be recreated or replicated.
I don't think anyone can relate to me as well as my band-mates can.
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.
I can tell when my brother's been borrowing my CDs.
It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.
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'm just always impressed with what Gwen pulls off. She'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 know how fickle the public and the music industry is.
Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.
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.
I'm not given the opportunity - nor do I want it - to write my own lyrics.
There's a different beauty to big and small audiences, and I don't think one is better.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
There was always a real camaraderie with No Doubt. It was always more than the music.
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.
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.
There's something to be said for perseverance. We've been sticking it out a long time.
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.
Sometimes in my mind I still think I'm 16 onstage and my body tells me that I'm not 16 anymore.
This may be our 15 minutes of fame, so we're going to enjoy it while it lasts.
Bad Brains are so underrated.
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.
It's an awesome feeling to have gone through all of the experiences we have together as a band and to now see our own kids there watching us.
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.
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'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.
We judge everything we do by the Clash and U2.
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.
Adrian has golf, Tom has surfing, Gwen has Gavin, I guess, and this is all I have - I wake, eat and sleep No Doubt.
You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.
In our minds maybe we think we're younger than we actually are.
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.
We got to live though the record industry in its heyday.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 came from that whole school of thinking that you give people 150 percent every time.
We love Eighties music.
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've had those experiences as a band and you fast forward to just the crazy rock 'n' roll nights, where you'd try to outlast each other and see who could drink the most. Fast forward to now and it really is amazing and nice how family-friendly Vegas has become.
You don't bring people down to your show and expect them to stand there and look at your shoes.
Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.
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.
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.
One of the reasons this record took so long to come out is that we withstood a lot of pressures and we were unwilling to compromise on a lot of things. 'Tragic Kingdom' is a battleground. It was the outcome of three years of struggle.
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.
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