Quotes from Daryl Hall

I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Art is a continuum.

I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'

Success and failure are equally surprising.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

Who knows what the right time to get married is?

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.