A biography for Brian Fallonhasn’t been written yet.
“When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'”
“Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.”
“I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.”
“I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.”
“We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.”
“If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.”
“The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.”
“When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.”
“I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.”
“I don't really hate a lot of songs, but I think Weezer has put out some songs I really hate because they've also put out a lot of songs I really like.”
“I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.”
“You get a realisation at some point in your career that whatever it is you do, you can no longer continue to do it. You just realise you can't put out the same records forever.”
“When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.”
“When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.”
“Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.”
“For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.”
“Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.”
“Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.”
“You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.”
“I must've been about 7 or 8 when I realized I wanted to perform in some way.”