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I'm a pretty private person.
There is redemption in every song.
It's a beautiful thing, to start over.
Fans look up to us, and that's creepy.
I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.
That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.
Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.
Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?
You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.
When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
I must've been about 7 or 8 when I realized I wanted to perform in some way.
It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.
If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.
I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.
I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.
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.
I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.
Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.
Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.
Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'
I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
I was never a fan of open tunings, because some people will do that and fumble around. But that's not my jam.
The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.
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.
You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
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.
Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy who got out.
I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.
I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.
Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
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 do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?
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.
Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.
If you're just making a record to pay the bills, that's not a great idea because chances are it might not come out that good.
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.
I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.