Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.
When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
I've spent my life playing music.
I was never a fan of open tunings, because some people will do that and fumble around. But that's not my jam.
When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.
I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.
I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.
It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.
Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.
I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.
The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
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.
You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.
Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.
Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.
There's no way I'm going to write for other people.
I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.
You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.
There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.
When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.
Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.
I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
I don't have a 'Born to Run' in me.
