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).
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
As I got older, my voice got better.
Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.
I'm always interested in what fans think.
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.
I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.
You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.
If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.
My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.
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.
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
Who knows what the right time to get married is?
I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.
I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.
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.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
