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" My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person. "

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" 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. "

" We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed. "

" I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. "

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

" The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way. "

" My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world. "

" The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer. "

" I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. "

" Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. "

" I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture. "

" I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. "

" 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. "

" If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy. "

" The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category. "

" I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio. "

" I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record. "

" 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. "

" I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot. "

" 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. "

" There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked. "

" I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. "

" If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager. "

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