About John Oates: John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo, Hall & Oates (with Daryl Hall).
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
You don't wanna be around your family constantly.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.
I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.
I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.
Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
