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.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

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.

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

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.

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 may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm bad at math.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.