Gavin Rossdale
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.Collection: Success
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.Collection: Legal
Being real is what is important.
A happy wife is a happy life.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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.
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 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.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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 am really addicted to music.
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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!
I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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.
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Any reaction is better than none.
Lyrics are really important for me.
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.
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 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.
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 can make no apologies for following my heart.Collection: Short Love
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.Collection: Selfish
Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.Collection: Circles
Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.Collection: Regret
I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.Collection: Smart
I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.Collection: Thinking
Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.Collection: Beautiful
Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?Collection: Reason
There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.Collection: Love You
It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.Collection: Fall
It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.Collection: Dad
It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need a week. We're idiots. But what was the most powerful realization to me was, how do single mothers with a low income cope? I can't complain about my dumb life. That's what was most revelatory to me.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Love Is
I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.Collection: Hard Work
It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.Collection: Selfish