Brian Fallon Quotes
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I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!
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I've spent my life playing music.
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If you're just making a record to pay the bills, that's not a great idea because chances are it might not come out that good.
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I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel that it's part of my job and my duty - especially where I'm from - to speak the language of the people I'm around and speak for them.
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I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
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Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.
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Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?
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You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.
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I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.
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A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm here.' You have to stay confident and positive that you're going to write something.
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I'm from New Jersey, the Shore, and Asbury Park and all that goes with that. I wouldn't want to mess around with that. I like New Jersey. There are nice people here.
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I don't have a 'Born to Run' in me.
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I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.
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I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.
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I must've been about 7 or 8 when I realized I wanted to perform in some way.
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I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'
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Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.
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Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
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I learn tons of John Frusciante's licks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm never going to play like the Chili Peppers, but I might use that if I've got a dub beat or reggae thing mixed with a soul thing.
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I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.
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I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
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The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
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The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.
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My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'