Brian Fallon Quotes
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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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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
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With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it.
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Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.
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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 like movies and radios and Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey. That's what I like, and if people don't like that, well, literally you can go on iTunes, and there's hundreds of other bands you can listen to.
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I'm a pretty private person.
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When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.
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We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.
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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?
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I was never a fan of open tunings, because some people will do that and fumble around. But that's not my jam.
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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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People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.
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When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
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It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'
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I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.
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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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I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.
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When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.
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It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
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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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Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'
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It's a beautiful thing, to start over.
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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.