Quotes from Brian Fallon

Why blow money on a tour bus when you could get your mom a nice dress?

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

There can be a wrong time - it's happened to countless bands where they release their first record on a major label and never learned what they maybe should have learned on an indie.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.

I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!

I was never a fan of open tunings, because some people will do that and fumble around. But that's not my jam.

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'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.

When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

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.

I'm on the phone with this guy, and he says to me, 'People compare you to Bruce Springsteen. I don't think you've written a song as good as 'Dancing in the Dark' or 'I'm on Fire.'' And all I could think was, 'Me neither!'

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.'

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 like movies and radios and Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey. That's what I like, and if people don't like that, well, literally you can go on iTunes, and there's hundreds of other bands you can listen to.

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.