Gavin Rossdale’s Ideal Weekend Involves Fried Eggs, Sake with Howard Stern, an Infrared Sauna and Time With His Kids (Exclusive)

Gavin Rossdale might be releasing his greatest hits album with Bush in November, but he often dreams of a life outside of music. "I think about it daily," he told The Messenger in an exclusive interview. "I thought of having a clothing line; I thought of having a TV show." The English rocker is a man of many talents and hobbies, which keep him occupied on weekends when he's not touring or recording.

Last Friday, Rossdale performed an anti-gun-violence benefit concert with Bush, but what he was really looking forward to was a weekend of cooking and spending time with his sons. "They'll be at my house when I get there on Saturday," he said on the afternoon leading up to his show.

Read on for more of Rossdale's weekend in The Messenger's ongoing interview series, My Ideal Weekend, where we catch up with stars about the thoughts, memories, interests and activities that help fuel (and refuel) their lives and work.

His perfect weekend morning

I have two lives because half the time my kids are there, and half the time they're not. So with my boys, when my boys are there, my little nine-year-old, he still lives with me. So when I get up, he gets up and it's usually about taking the dog out and going downstairs and planning for the day while he pops on his iPad. I read the news, then maybe we'll go out to, if it was a Saturday, the farmer's market, go get some food for the weekend.

I've got two quarterbacks in my family. Two of the three boys are quarterbacks for their team. They just began, and I missed the first game last week, so I'm really excited I get to see it this week. I have one guy that helps me full-time, and he sets up the backyard with, like, training stuff. And so we just get out there and they train and then we can swim and mess around. I have an infrared sauna, and so I make them take saunas with me.

Favorite weekend meal to cook

Fried eggs, usually with french fries. Just like a thing of french fries and then a couple of eggs on top, maybe some chili thing and a glass of red wine, something of that. I just like basic stuff like that for myself. It's really fun.

Go-to weekend indulgence

I'm a really fun person, so my guilty pleasure's all the time. I just don't have specific times to misbehave. I think the life is there to be lived. And so I'm all about the fun. God. I'm so lucky because when I think of guilty pleasure, it's like my lifestyle. But obviously it's a bit of a laugh to go out and have a good liquid lunch, a good day drink. And I sort of regret it, about 6:30: "Who am I? Where am I going? Am I going out for dinner? What's happening?"

So I love long lunches with friends, catching up, things like that. I love barbecues and all that, super regular stuff, because I'm away so much. I think I'm a bit of a homebody. I like being at my house.

Indoors or outdoors?

Well, I like to spend the day doing both. Because I live in California, so there is that annoying concept, if you don't live in California, of an "indoor/outdoor lifestyle." So in a way, we straddle those things, and the weather's so beautiful that you just can have a really good time, just both in and out. But probably outdoors in the day, but at my house, you know what I mean? I don't have a very big yard or anything, but it's big enough to just even be out there.

Preferred reading material

I have a clothing line, Sea of Sound, and I was trying to get smarter, so I was reading the Peter Thiel book on how to build companies. And also, and that segues into another book that I read about in the newspaper that I bought, which is about how the four billionaires — Musk, Thiel, Andreessen and Zuckerberg — are destroying the world. So I'm reading his intro of how to be smart as he is, and he's an incredibly smart man, and then sort of what the complaint is for what these billionaires are creating for this world for us mice, us ants running around the world, trying to scrape a living together.

Most memorable recent conversation

I had a chance to talk to Howard Stern about life, and that was pretty mesmerizing. I feel that it's hard to put into words, into a short phrase, the reach of what we were talking about. What I find fascinating is that the most brilliant people, and I consider him probably one of America's greatest comics, they're quite consistently the most selfless and most interested in you and what you're doing. And they have no need to overly indulge a conversation about them and what they're doing. And I think that's such a great quality. It was a wonderful night. And that was my best dinner I've had. I mainly had sake… and a little bit of sushi.