Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin McGregor Rossdale is an English musician and actor, known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. Following Bush's separation in 2002, which lasted for eight years, he was the lead singer and guitarist for Institute, and later began a solo career. When performing solo, Rossdale plays songs from his musical libraries. He was ranked 75th in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader. In 2013 Rossdale received the British Academy's Ivor Novello...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 October 1965
CityLondon, England
My life's changed a lot in the last couple of years, ... and hopefully this reflects it. I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush. It's got a paranoid edge to it.
I never heard from anyone in the band.
I f you didn't throw up when you heard Bush, you definitely won't throw up when you hear Institute.
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
Cool to disappear, but I missed you most days.
I've been going through some pretty crazy stuff. And I've had to deal with a few people that I thought were pretty close to me turning around and just trying to destroy me, I think.
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.