Brian Fallon Quotes
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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.
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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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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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When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.
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It's a beautiful thing, to start over.
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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 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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Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.
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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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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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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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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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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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You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.
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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 think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.
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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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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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It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
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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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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 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.