Gavin Rossdale Quotes (49 Quotes)

I love the hard music but I'm a sucker for melody.

A happy wife is a happy life.

She's really focused and knows what's in her mind and her vision. It's shocking, stunning. She looks the best to me when she takes seven minutes to get together and we go out low-key. She looks great by the pool.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

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.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our 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.

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.

Lyrics are really important for me.

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.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

I play rock music but grew up with Massive Attack and Tricky. I am not just some rock musician I want to cover the whole lot.

If I want to get a certain color and use a female voice, ... who better than her

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

Being real is what is important.

I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Any reaction is better than none.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

I've been going through some pretty crazy stuff. And I've had to deal with a few people that I thought were pretty close to me turning around and just trying to destroy me, I think.

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

It's such a legacy, it's insane... even outside of America, CBGB is synonymous with New York, with music.

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.

I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush, ... It's got a paranoid edge to it. It's a pretty difficult transition to go from my band Bush to this new terrain, this whole other world.

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.

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

The premise of that song is finding ways to deal with whatever's thrown at you. Wherever you are, whatever you do there are always tremendous pressures thrown at you, and one of the only ways to survive is to have this ability to roll with what life throws.

Everything is fine now, ... We resolved it and the war of attrition is over. We're concentrating on all working hard together to make this record well known. We're down with them. It's just really good to be having a record out.

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

My life's changed a lot in the last couple of years, ... and hopefully this reflects it. I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush. It's got a paranoid edge to it.

I am really addicted to music.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

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!

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.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they

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.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going ''Oh God, I really love your hair.''

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.