With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.
The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.
From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
I'm never sure how to rank these things, but I will say that it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to play for the Queen of England. Preferably in the throne room.
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.
I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.
Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.
Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.
