Gavin Rossdale Quotes
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I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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Being real is what is important.
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I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.
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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
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The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
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For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
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Lyrics are really important for me.
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It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.
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It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen Stefani, I was amazed at what she went through.
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Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?
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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
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The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.
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Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.
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But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.
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Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
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There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
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I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.
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I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.
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It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.