Brian Fallon Quotes
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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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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
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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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The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.
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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.
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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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The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
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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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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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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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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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Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.
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I'm a pretty private person.
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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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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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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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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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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
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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.