Brian Fallon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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There's no way I'm going to write 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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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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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
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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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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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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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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary 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've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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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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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 do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?