You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.
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 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 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 think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
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.
I had a five-year plan to get to 500-seat venues and tour by ourselves and fill a room everywhere we go. I figured we could make a living off that. As long as you buy nothing stupid, you'll be OK.
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.
I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.
I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
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.
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.
There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and other people tell you it's crazy. The second thing is the only people you really need to worry about are the people who love your music, not the people who speak badly about it.
Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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.
At the end of the day, you can't reinvent yourself past a point, because you are you, and there are things that are inherently you that are always going to be there.
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.
