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" Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment. "

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" My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. "

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

" You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic. "

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

" I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines. "

" I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.' "

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

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

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

" There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. "

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

" If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends. "

" There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. "

" 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. "

" You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else. "

" I just like playing with the band and doing what I do. "

" When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. "

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

" You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free. "

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

" We should have an easier name to pronounce. "

" 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. "

" We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. "