Quotes from Daryl Hall

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

I don't really strain my voice.

My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.