Gavin Rossdale Quotes
"The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: People, Lawyers)
"I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Money, People, Punk)
"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Pretty)
"I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess."
- Gavin Rossdale
"In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill."
- Gavin Rossdale
"It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Success, Pretty)
"Lyrics are really important for me."
- Gavin Rossdale
"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."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: America, Care, Will)
"Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Work, England, Jobs, Night, Play)
"The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Talk)
"We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Success, First)
"When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: First, Public, Thinking, Writing)
"Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Inspiration, Books, Literature, Living)
"The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Faces)
"Any reaction is better than none."
- Gavin Rossdale
"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Artist, Pretty)
"As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Home, Love, Time, Road)
"Being real is what is important."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Being)
"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!"
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Words)
"Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Play)
"I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Success, Past)
"A happy wife is a happy life."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Life, Wife)
"I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Love, Work, Time, People, Hard work)
"I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: People, Pretty)
"For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Popularity)
"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."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Sex, Heroes, Pretty, Punk)
"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Personality, Sound)
"I love seeing the fans of the music that I make."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Love, Music, Fans)
"I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Love)
"I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"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."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Boss, Songs)
"I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Work, Hard work, Want)
"I am really addicted to music."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Music)
"I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Feeling, Will)