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.

Daryl Hall

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

Daryl Hall

To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

Daryl Hall

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

Daryl Hall

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

Daryl Hall

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Daryl Hall

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

Daryl Hall

I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

Daryl Hall

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

Daryl Hall

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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

Daryl Hall

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

Daryl Hall

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

Daryl Hall

All artists have insecurity.

Daryl Hall

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

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.

Daryl Hall

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Daryl Hall

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

Daryl Hall

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

Daryl Hall