Quotes from John Oates

I'm bad at math.

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

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.

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

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

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.

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

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

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

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

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 a great family, I live an amazing life.

We should have an easier name to pronounce.