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I'm bad at math.
Young people go to concerts.
It's the music that brings us together.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.
You don't wanna be around your family constantly.
I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.
When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.