Quotes from Philip Bailey

If you get the basics right, you can freshen things up, you don't want to just regurgitate the past. But we gotta stay true to our historic selves.

I am who I am. I can't do anything that doesn't have nuances of all the music I've done in the past.

In the group setting, I had a role to play, it was like being on a team. In a solo setting I'm forced to pull out all the stops.

I have a relationship with Christ and it is ongoing. I study my Bible, I do fellowship at a Church, it's a life thing.

I love the clothes, I love the discipline. It's all encompassing. You play golf for two hours and you feel like you went on a two-hour vacation. It's like meditation.

It used to be that Denver was one of the most stressful cities to play because I was very nervous at coming home.

Rhythm, melody, message, that's what matters. Our main concern coming out of the gate is to make sure those foundations are strong, the songs are speaking to us. Everything else, horns and strings, is sweetening.

I mean, I strive every day, man, to just be the best that I can be.

We're a band that struck on a really fantastic formula. We were able to carry it through.

I try to watch what I eat and not go overly crazy. I listen to my body, and am grateful for the blessings of God for my health and strength.

I can't lie: We have made some dogs over the years. Every album we did wasn't great, you know.

Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

There's a side of me vocally that people didn't know existed. I had to get it out of me.