108 Quotes by Brian Fallon

You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.

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.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.

It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'

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.

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.