Daryl Hall quotes

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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

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.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

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.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

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