Gavin Rossdale Quotes

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

Lyrics are really important for me.

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.

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

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

I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.

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

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'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.

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

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.

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

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

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

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

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

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

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.

Being real is what is important.

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

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

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

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

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

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

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

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.

I am really addicted to music.

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

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

Any reaction is better than none.

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.

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

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

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

A happy wife is a happy life.

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