I’ve got a sense of humor. I’m a funny guy.

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’m always interested in what fans think.

If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.

I don’t really strain my voice.

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...

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...

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.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they’re all about themselves.

As a singer, I float around. I’m kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what’s going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

I’ve been traveling around the world forever.

Who knows what the right time to get married is?

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it’s pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

I had the idea of ‘Live From Daryl’s House’ way before I contracted Lyme disease.

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.

I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who’d go nuts on the dance floor,...

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.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There’s no romance in obscurity.

I do a project, and then I move on.

The Internet allows me to be more free.

You don’t have to be a good musician if you’ve got certain computer skills.

Nobody’s going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

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.

I’ve always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs – that just comes out of my head. That’s not...

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.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

I never felt entitled to anything. I’m the hardest worker I know.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

You don’t have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

Reject what you don’t want. Get rid of dead wood.

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can’t plan for that.

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.

I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they’re stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

I’m very enthused about everything. I have a lot to say and a lot of things I’m interested in.

The ‘Daryl’s House’ thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

The song ‘Laughing Down Crying’ is not a typical Daryl song.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with ‘American Bandstand’ and the music that came out of that city.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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...

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn’t go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the...

I’ve always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits – to find out if I have any, really.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

I’ve been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

I’m quite an eclectic musician.