Gavin Rossdale Quotes

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.

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.

Any reaction is better than none.

Lyrics are really important for me.

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

I love playing live, I don`t like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

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

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

I know that sometimes we get accused of being a band that`s successful on account of my average cheek bones. But it IS a good band. I`m not the most arrogant person in the world, but I`m going to start to be. I`m sort of sick of being misrepresented.

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

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

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.

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

I am really addicted to music.

Being real is what is important.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I`m not in any way homophobic, but I just hung around that whole scene. I grew up in the center of London, and the best clubs were always the gay clubs. Quoted after rumors sparked that he was gay after an insinuation in Boy George`s 1995 autobiography.

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!

As an artist, you`re pretty sheltered backstage. You often don`t know what`s going on out there.

(about acting) (...) I love to act and I find it very inspiring. And it was a case of waiting to find the right thing that I wanted to do and that wanted me.

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

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

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

A happy wife is a happy life.

I think it`s pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don`t like us.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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