Stefani: 'No Doubt having fun in studio'

Gwen Stefani has revealed that her band No Doubt are "having fun" in the studio.

While Stefani was unavailable, the rest of the group comprised of Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young started work on their new album.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the singer said: "They were doing stuff before but things are kind of starting over, you know what I mean?

"We might revisit some of that stuff, but it's the same old chase. It doesn't matter how we get there - we want to get there, we will, and we're having fun doing it."

Stefani also admitted that the band always revisit music from their youth for inspiration.

She added: "We always do that. I think everyone does. The last few weeks, we've been listening to the worst of the '80s, in the sense of bad but good. Pop songs, one-hit wonders, nifty songs, things like that.

"You just go back and find things that you love, and try to figure out how they made them. We just listen to good songs, and then writing our own stuff, we try to pull it out wherever we can."