Brian Fallon

There can be a wrong time - it's happened to countless bands where they release their first record on a major label…

— Brian Fallon

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can…

— Brian Fallon

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

— Brian Fallon

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

— Brian Fallon

I'm from New Jersey, the Shore, and Asbury Park and all that goes with that. I wouldn't want to mess around with…

— Brian Fallon

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

— Brian Fallon

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

— Brian Fallon

If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would…

— 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.

— Brian Fallon

Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.

— Brian Fallon

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

— 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 do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we…

— Brian Fallon

It's a beautiful thing, to start over.

— Brian Fallon

I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you…

— Brian Fallon

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

— Brian Fallon

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

— Brian Fallon

I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel…

— Brian Fallon

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

— Brian Fallon

You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.

— Brian Fallon

I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I…

— 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…

— Brian Fallon

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

— Brian Fallon

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…

— 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