Gavin Rossdale

“I am really addicted to music.”

“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.”

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

“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 quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.”

“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.”

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

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

“Being real is what is important.”

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

“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 was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.”

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

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

“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.”

“For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.”

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

“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 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 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.”