Brian Fallon Quotes
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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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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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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.
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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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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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Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.
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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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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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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
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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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Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
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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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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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Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.
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I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 a pretty private person.