GAVIN'S WORDS
"I think it's definately an overrated connection."
-Gavin on all the Nirvana comparisons.
"What crap do I speak."
"The money doesn't change stuff.You're still strung
out,people still piss you off.You become more alienated.So
it's not easy.It's crazy."
"I am in that same position that has driven some
people
loopy.I'm not just coming in for a week and trying it
on.I'm in it.It's on me.And I know it takes a lot of
mental
strength to keep yourself together."
"My favorite guest appearance is by my dog.I like to
bring him on,and he sits there and just kind of hangs
out."
"Winston can roll really good joints."
"No! I'm like anyone.I have days when I hate anything
to do with any kind of mirror.But I just get on with
it,really." -Gavin in response to 'Do you think of
yourself
as good looking?'.
"We've all felt that element of being very far away
from where everyone thinks you are - from someone in a
high school to someone in an office or their friend's
house." -Gavin talking about Swallowed.
"I love playing live,I need the reaction of the
audience..."
"Only the guys who never made it and will never make
it in the U.S. need to put up the front and say that they
don't care about America."
"I would rather wash cars for the rest of my life than
play Britpop.Look at the whole artificial scene in the
U.K.,it is incestuous and anemic."
"I really don't care for Britpop.Any idiot can play
Britpop.All you need is a talent for copying songs from
the 60's."
"The funny thing is that in some states they still
card me in bars.Actually,I think that is far more
flattering than being called a sex symbol." -Gavin
responding to 'You have the reputation of being the new
sex symbol of the 90's.Is it rather flattering or
annoying?'.
"I don't see myself as the boss.I sing and I write the
songs,and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the
lyrics I sang."
"Each of us has a very different personality and that
is what keeps Bush alive."
"I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the U.K.
God,the Sex Pistols were heroes for me." -Gavin on who his
musical influences were.
"So many things happen so quickly that you really
don't have time to appreciate them."
"Sometimes you have to almost force yourself to slow
down so that you can begin the process of absorbing all
the things around you."
"We can do more,that's for sure."
"I've yet to feel limited by what we do,but I often
feel the urge to expand the scope a bit.I think that's
what the future will hold.The idea is quite exciting for
all of us."
"Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.It
saves me from daily sessions with a shrink."
"I've tried to make it a policy not to discuss my
personal life."
"All I will say is that I care about Gwen a great deal
and that I enjoy spending as much time with her as I can."
"I came back to London that first time with a hit
album and I felt like I was living in a graveyard."
"I've been making music long enough to know you have
to make sacrifice for it."
"I put in seven years of making music without any sort
of recognition before things started to break for this
band."
"I was 17,and I was living this misguided commune sort
of thing."
"I've heard that the sexual aspects of rock and roll
have really been missing in the 90's,and that we're one of
the first bands that tried to put them back in there.I
think that's a very good thing."
"I don't know if you necessarily need to look a
certain way to play powerful music."
"I don't think I could ever live the concept of
pleasing everybody."
"I think that a lot of people have come to either love
what I do-- or hate it.I like that."
"Even after the first album was a hit in America,there
were places we could go where we are still virtually
unknown.That's not true anymore.Now that kind of reaction
follows us everywhere."
"I know that we may never be a critic's band-- any
group that enjoys a great deal of commercial success seems
to be naturally hated by critics-- but the fans seem happy
with what we've done.That,and the fact that we're quite
satisfied makes me very content."
"We felt it was a good time to try something a little
different." -Gavin talking about Deconstructed
"Music needs to be flexible,and by presenting our
songs to these producers,we found just how elastic they
can be.I find that to be very exciting."
"I generally started by just playing my own material.I
sort of did that really horrible singer thing,where you
play acoustic guitar.That was real scary." -Gavin asked
about his motivation to play guitar
"Taking drugs isn't cool and peer pressure is probably
the hardest part when you're young.You think all the guys
who take 'em are cool and you want to be cool,too."
Email:
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