Quotes from John Oates

I'm bad at math.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

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

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.