Top 30 Gavin Rossdale Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A happy wife is a happy life.”

— Gavin Rossdale

2. “Being real is what is important.”

— Gavin Rossdale

3. “If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.”

— Gavin Rossdale

4. “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

5. “I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.”

— Gavin Rossdale

6. “Any reaction is better than none.”

— Gavin Rossdale

7. “I can make no apologies for following my heart.”

— Gavin Rossdale

8. “There’s nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.”

— Gavin Rossdale

9. “In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.”

— Gavin Rossdale

10. “Who doesn’t love Game of Thrones? Sons of Anarchy is funny and thug-ish. I love Shameless. I just sit with my hat tipped, waiting for something to happen, more than going out after the shows.”

— Gavin Rossdale

11. “I love what I’m doing most of the time, but it’s hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don’t know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.”

— Gavin Rossdale

12. “Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.”

— Gavin Rossdale

13. “I’m just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.”

— Gavin Rossdale

14. “I’d love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.”

— Gavin Rossdale

15. “For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.”

— Gavin Rossdale

16. “I’m not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.”

— Gavin Rossdale

17. “I love playing live, I don’t like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.”

— Gavin Rossdale

18. “Well, I’m English, so it’s intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn’t say that I’m painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.”

— Gavin Rossdale

19. “I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They’re absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.”

— Gavin Rossdale

20. “I am really addicted to music.”

— Gavin Rossdale

21. “I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.”

— Gavin Rossdale

22. “But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.”

— Gavin Rossdale

23. “The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.”

— Gavin Rossdale

24. “As an artist, you’re pretty sheltered backstage. You often don’t know what’s going on out there.”

— Gavin Rossdale

25. “It’s pretty hard to make out what’s going to be a commercial success and what’s not.”

— Gavin Rossdale

26. “It’s so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It’s terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.”

— Gavin Rossdale

27. “Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!”

— Gavin Rossdale

28. “I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.”

— Gavin Rossdale

29. “I don’t know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.”

— Gavin Rossdale

30. “The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.”

— Gavin Rossdale

31. “I don’t see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.”

— Gavin Rossdale

32. “Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it’s such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don’t have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.”

— Gavin Rossdale

33. “Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren’t they?”

— Gavin Rossdale

34. “I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.”

— Gavin Rossdale