Top 35 Quotes by Gavin Rossdale

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.

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

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.

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

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

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

Lyrics are really important for me.

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

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