Gavin Rossdale joined Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss Bush’s new album ’The Art of Survival’, evolving his craft, living the America dream, and why Bush had to leave England as Britpop and Oasis dominated.
Gavin Rossdale on Bush’s New Album ‘The Art of Survival’…
I think that the most honest that you can get when you make music, and the most you can dive into yourself has the biggest chance for it to be, in a weird way… The more personal you get, the more universal it becomes. Because that truth, and that journey, people relate to it. And people know genuine and disingenuous. I think maybe that’s what’s going on. And everyone’s been through so much. The Art of Survival applies to literally everybody. And it’s just staggering, the stories. Wherever you go, whoever you come across, has such an incredible journey that they’re overcoming. And it doesn’t matter whether it is someone on the bus, the plane, or anywhere you meet at a bar. People have shown their resilience. And we didn’t know that we had to be that resilient.
Gavin Rossdale on Improving His Craft…
As you go through life, you try and get better at what you do. And you choose your path and your vocation and your craft, and you just work at it. And I love that whole Japanese concept of being an artisan. So you don’t do many things, you do something really well. It’s really challenging, rock music, and obviously everyone’s been talking forever about whether rock music is alive or dead and no one cares.
Gavin Rossdale on Living The American Dream…
…I just try to be inspired, and there’s so much inspirational music out and about, that it’s just fun to be part of it. And I could’ve… I just like being surprising. I feel like in my life, I’ve done everything the wrong way. I was doing rock music when Brit Pop was what was happening. I came to America when I couldn’t get signed in England. Picked up here. I am the American dream. I live the American dream.
