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.

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

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

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

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

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

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

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

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 think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.

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

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 have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great 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.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

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.

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

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

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

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Young people go to concerts.

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

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.