Brian Fallon Quotes
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Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.
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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.
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For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.
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I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you know? You're like 'Oh, all right! That's good!' We had a Number Three record. That's crazy! What's that about? That's exciting to me! I think that's good.
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Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and we needed to grow as a band before we made that step. We needed to do it our way and not do it how it works for other people.
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Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.
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There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and other people tell you it's crazy. The second thing is the only people you really need to worry about are the people who love your music, not the people who speak badly about it.
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You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
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I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
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As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.
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We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.
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Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.
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If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.
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Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy who got out.
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When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.
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I'm a pretty private person.
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I'd like to say I don't care, but I do. 'Cause when you put out a record, you try to do it for yourself first, and you want your audience to accept it, but you also want the press to accept it, too, because it validates what you do.