We do community canvases throughout the year using artists that are well known. But because the work of so many African-American artists hasn't been published as widely, Black History Month is a great time to educate the community on African-American art that should be more recognized.

We knew we had everything else right and we weren't going to settle for anything but the best and the coolest. As soon as Mike came in, we knew we had waiting for 11 for a reason.

When we're up, we're all up. We kind of move together — we feed off each other's excitement.

We always overcame every adversity, and in the end, all the critical things that had to happen did happen.

When you get to your 11th drummer, and then things start going well, you can get him to do just about anything for you if you just keep threatening that you're going to fire him.

We talk to the kids for a few minutes about the piece and ask them what they see. Then we get them to compare the image in the piece with their own lives and ask them about symbols they see in it that correspond with symbols from their daily lives.

The Stardust concept, from the time we started scribbling it on paper until today, has been almost perfect.

We just want to write classic pop songs about girls.

Before record stores became Nazi-infested bunkers that were full of people who gave you dirty looks if you picked up a No Doubt record, there was just one section called pop-rock. We all consider it pop-rock because we're playing pop-rock 'n' roll music, which, when it comes right down to it, means catchy songs about girls that you're totally going to be obsessed with.