I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.
