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Gavin Rossdale Quotes


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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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