You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
All artists have insecurity.
I'm very enthused about everything. I have a lot to say and a lot of things I'm interested in.
In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Having a solo career is a funny thing.
I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
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.
For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.
I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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.
I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
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.'
