108 Quotes by Brian Fallon

You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.

Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.

I don't mean it egotistically, but I've been given the chance to be in front of people and sing, and I feel that it's part of my job and my duty - especially where I'm from - to speak the language of the people I'm around and speak for them.

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

Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.

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.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.