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

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" Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing. "

" 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. "

" I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem. "

" There's no way I'm going to write for other people. "

" 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. "

" You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you. "

" 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. "

" I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older. "

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

" I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into. "

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

" With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it. "

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

" I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real. "

" Fans look up to us, and that's creepy. "

" When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often. "

" My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!' "

" Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now. "

" Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and we needed to grow as a band before we made that step. We needed to do it our way and not do it how it works for other people. "

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

" The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that. "

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

" One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar. "

" You get a realisation at some point in your career that whatever it is you do, you can no longer continue to do it. You just realise you can't put out the same records forever. "