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" If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing. "

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" I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop. "

" With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show. "

" Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. "

" I've been asked to do various types of cruises. "

" The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done. "

" I'm always reading something. "

" Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good. "

" I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. "

" I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. "

" I have a great family, I live an amazing life. "

" The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. "

" Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity. "

" Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together. "

" I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class. "

" Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. "

" I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs. "

" You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. "

" The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers. "

" I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it. "

" The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs. "

" 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. "

" When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months. "

" I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window. "

" A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. "

" We should have an easier name to pronounce. "

" Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. "

" I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists. "

" To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. "

" Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. "

" When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. "