We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.
My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.
The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.
If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!
I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.
I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
