I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
Gavin Rossdale

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
Gavin Rossdale

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
Gavin Rossdale

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
Gavin Rossdale

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
Gavin Rossdale

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

Lyrics are really important for me.
Gavin Rossdale

Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
Gavin Rossdale

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.
Gavin Rossdale

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Gavin Rossdale

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
Gavin Rossdale

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
Gavin Rossdale

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

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