Brian Fallon Quotes
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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've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'
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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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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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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 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 get a realisation at some point in your career that whatever it is you do, you can no longer continue to do it. You just realise you can't put out the same records forever.
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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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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
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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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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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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
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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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Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.
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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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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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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 want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.
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I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
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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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I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.