When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

Brian Fallon

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

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Work Home Car

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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Art Twice Think

Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.

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I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel that it's part of my job and my duty - especially where I'm from - to speak the language of the people I'm around and speak for them.

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Chance Art Age

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

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You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.

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You Worn Wear

It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.

Brian Fallon

Teen Ways Way

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.

Brian Fallon

Time Change You

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.

Brian Fallon

Time Wrong Where

My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'

Brian Fallon

Writing Writers Writer

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

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You Which Together

I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.

Brian Fallon

Money Car Why

I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.

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There's no way I'm going to write for other people.

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I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!

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Work Car Would

You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.

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Family Car Your

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

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Time Very Tower

I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.

Brian Fallon

Art Wit Us

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

Brian Fallon

Time You Write

Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.

Brian Fallon

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?'

Brian Fallon

I'm on the phone with this guy, and he says to me, 'People compare you to Bruce Springsteen. I don't think you've written a song as good as 'Dancing in the Dark' or 'I'm on Fire.'' And all I could think was, 'Me neither!'

Brian Fallon

We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.

Brian Fallon

I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.

Brian Fallon

Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.

Brian Fallon

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

Brian Fallon

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.

Brian Fallon

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

Brian Fallon

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?

Brian Fallon

I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.

Brian Fallon

I had a five-year plan to get to 500-seat venues and tour by ourselves and fill a room everywhere we go. I figured we could make a living off that. As long as you buy nothing stupid, you'll be OK.

Brian Fallon

I'm a pretty private person.

Brian Fallon

Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

Brian Fallon

Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.

Brian Fallon

At the end of the day, you can't reinvent yourself past a point, because you are you, and there are things that are inherently you that are always going to be there.

Brian Fallon

When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

Brian Fallon

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

Brian Fallon

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.

Brian Fallon

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.

Brian Fallon

There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and other people tell you it's crazy. The second thing is the only people you really need to worry about are the people who love your music, not the people who speak badly about it.

Brian Fallon

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.

Brian Fallon

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

Brian Fallon

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

Brian Fallon

You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.

Brian Fallon

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.

Brian Fallon

I must've been about 7 or 8 when I realized I wanted to perform in some way.

Brian Fallon

I learn tons of John Frusciante's licks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm never going to play like the Chili Peppers, but I might use that if I've got a dub beat or reggae thing mixed with a soul thing.

Brian Fallon

Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?

Brian Fallon

You get a realisation at some point in your career that whatever it is you do, you can no longer continue to do it. You just realise you can't put out the same records forever.

Brian Fallon