Explore Quotes by Gavin Rossdale

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

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

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

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

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

Any reaction is better than none.

Lyrics are really important for me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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