TONY KANAL: Odds are against a band selling this many records doing it twice. It doesn't happen that often. The odds are against you even more. So we're prepared for whatever happens. Lots of bands have had big records and then the next record comes out, and it sells, like if they sold 8 million, it sells a million. And people go, ohhh. That's a million records! They still sold a million records! That's incredible.

GWEN STEFANI: We've been together ten years. If it was all taken away tomorrow, it's like, I think we all feel pretty fulfilled, ya know? It's reached way, way higher than we ever thought it would go. We didn't even think the record would come out, let alone go to number one. It's just ridiculous, ya' know? And then for 5 weeks stay at number one, hello? It's crazy.

TONY KANAL: But don't take it away.

GWEN STEFANI: Yeah, no, yeah.

MTV NEWS: Is all the stardom affecting the band's attitude?

ADRIAN YOUNG: I think when people go through something like this that's so uncommon, it's impossible to be the exact same person you were before. Uh, not that we've become pompous people or anything like that, but I think we've just maybe grown up quicker. Seen the world a lot in one year, and we hadn't seen hardly any of it before. And that really educates and makes you see things a lot differently. So I think there's definitely change, but I think most of it's been pretty positive.

GWEN STEFANI: I think everybody around us has changed, that's for sure. Suddenly everyone thinks we're cool. My parents are really proud that I'm like a total whore, slut, skank girl.

TONY KANAL: They could be referring to the dance that rude boys and rude girls do. It's called the skank. When you listen to ska music, you skank, and I think they got a little mixed up.

MTV NEWS: In the 1996 "Rolling Stone" year end poll, fans voted you one of the best new artists, but critics voted you one of the worst. How does that affect you?

ADRIAN YOUNG: I'm unaffected by it.

TOM: I think they're idiots.

GWEN STEFANI: If you let people bring you down and bring your confidence level down, you're just gonna disappoint people that are into you.

ADRIAN YOUNG: I'm really happy to hear you say that. That's awesome. I wonder if, ya know, Gwen, cuz she has the most potential of being criticized or praised, and so I wonder if it's gonna effect her too much, especially the negative stuff. And it sounds like she's got a good grasp on it.

GWEN STEFANI: Yeah, I would just rather not read it. Because, I'm human. And to hear someone say I'm a lot of things, especially the things that I kinda always, like, I felt the same way that this writer is feeling about me, like oh, exploitation of women or these kind of things, and they're telling me that I'm doing them? That's when I start to go [makes fake crying noise] ya' know, wait a minute, I'm on your side, ya' know? And I have to look at myself and go, "Why do I show my belly button?" You know what I mean? I start questioning myself. I just write about what happens to me. I'm not trying to like prove anything or break any stereotypes or anything like that.