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" With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. "

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" 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 like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. "

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

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

" It's the music that brings us together. "

" Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music. "

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

" The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about. "

" I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique. "

" I'm bad at math. "

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

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

" When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed. "

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

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

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

" 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. "