RALPH TRESVANT: You wanna make sure you come out and be just as excited to the audience as they were. So you know, it's good, it makes everybody push harder every night.

MTV NEWS: Has there been an opportunity when you guys separated, did you always say to yourself, 'God I really wanna see BBD perform this song'? Have you kinda been amped to go out and see somebody do a song that you worked together with, or is that not going on as well?

JOHNNY GILL: That's goin' on. When I'm getting dressed normally, I'll jump back, run to the side and watch the other half of the show. So I mean, we watch each other while we're getting dressed, and you can hear response from the crowd like Mike was sayin'. So it's just fun, it just keeps you at the top of your game because you always need some motivation, and a lot of time bein' sick, like I've been sick, and Bob's been sick, everybody with colds and stuff like that, but you always find a way to get through it, and a part of that is because you watch everybody, and everybody gives you that extra boost that you need to get goin' and to make it happen.

MTV NEWS: What songs off "Home Again" have been getting the best reception as you go through them?

RALPH TRESVANT: All of 'em.

BOBBY BROWN: I think "Home Again" has been getting a really good reception because the fact that it is a ballad, and hopefully that's our next single off of the "Home Again" album. That's been getting a really good reception. Also "Hit Me Off," "Still In Love," a really big one, and tonight hopefully we gonna do the single that's out now, you know, New York City's bonkers over, so we gonna' do that tonight, and hopefully that will get a good reception.

MTV NEWS: Is there a particular old song, obviously when you get back into the "Candy Girl" era, everybody is gonna' go crazy, but is there one song that everybody's been universally going crazy for out of the old stuff?

BOBBY BROWN: "Lost In Love."

JOHNNY GILL: You get so many mixed reviews I think because after people leave from the show, a lot of people ask you, 'Why didn't these guys sing this song?' Because there are so many songs. The show was originally, when we first started, was two forty five, almost three hours long . We had to start cuttin' a lot of the songs.

MICHAEL BIVINS: And that was only because before we come on stage, the audience would have been there for about two and a half hours, but if we woulda' had maybe like one opening act of course we woulda' wanted to give the people what they paid for, a three hour show, but we condensed the show like Johnny said. Every city we leave, there's always so many people's different favorites that you know they talk about. But you know, we are hopefully gonna' be out here for a long time so whatever's not in here now we'll be able to add and just keep this New Edition thing going for as long as we can.

MTV NEWS: Just curious if there's a lot of choreography in the show. I know that when I talk to people about coming to talk to you they're like, 'All six could be up there dancin' together.' So is there a lot of that stuff going on?

RICKY BELL: Like you said, there will be points where you'll see all six of us, then five of us, then we break it down into the different individual groups. That's what we're all about, a lot of choreography, slappin', slides and shuffle steps.

MICHAEL BIVINS: Cross steps.

MTV NEWS: Was it harder to get back together vocally? I mean when you came back together for the album, was it more difficult to do that or was it more difficult to rehearse all those dance steps to get in kinda' split time?

BOBBY BROWN: The dance steps came more difficult because we all, we are all separate individual vocalists, like say, Boyz II Men is a vocal group. That's what they do. They do harmonies together. New Edition, we're individual singers, so when we do sing together, its usually our harmony parts are so easy to hit because we all have certain types of voices that we don't really concentrate on that too much. And hopefully we won't sound like sh*t tonight!

MTV NEWS: Besides your ages, in what way is this tour different from the tours you guys did in the past?

RICKY BELL: We have our own buses.Our own security, our own assistant.

MICHAEL BIVINS: We've never all been on tour together though.