About Daryl Hall: Daryl Franklin Hohl is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates).
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
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.
I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.
This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Success and failure are equally surprising.
I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
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 s...
The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
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 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.
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 specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.
The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
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.
Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
