Brian Fallon Quotes
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When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.
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One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.
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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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Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
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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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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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I'm a pretty private person.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There can be a wrong time - it's happened to countless bands where they release their first record on a major label and never learned what they maybe should have learned on an indie.
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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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When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'
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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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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.
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It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.
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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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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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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
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I don't really hate a lot of songs, but I think Weezer has put out some songs I really hate because they've also put out a lot of songs I really like.
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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.