I think we realized this is a good time now because people really do want to hear some realistic songs, something that has some substance to it.

It keeps us loose. You go out here and everybody’s intense and the expectations are so big, it just relaxes us a little bit. It helps take our minds off of things a little bit.

Sex has spoiled Daryl but not success.

At some point in their career, most people do an album of great hits of other performers – a tribute album that shows their influences.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don’t expect,

Sometimes, it’s just great to bring new people into the mix.

I couldn’t begin to name names… in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet… and some of the nicest as well.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

Funny, even though we’re known as Philly musicians and our sound is predicated on that, I lived in Philly just four years, … Then we both moved to NYC and lived there throughout the ’70s...

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don’t hit the headlines.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

The contrast is that we’re very different people, in terms of our personal lives and our personalities. We don’t step on each other’s toes. It’s a delicate balance.

The thing is that we travel so much together that it wouldn’t be a vacation. You get off the road and you’re going to turn around and travel again?

I don’t require what Daryl requires. He likes the performance a lot more than I do. I enjoy playing with a great band. I don’t need to tour.

Our music just seemed to fit. Radio embraced it, and before we knew it, we were pop idols.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn’t change my life.

We had a good run in the ’70s but we got really big in the early ’80s, … It was a whirlwind. It was non-stop demands. We would write songs for a month or so,...

The thing is, we’ve changed our style but we’ve never changed the actual roots of what we’ve done.

I grew up in Pennsylvania, only fifteen miles away from Daryl where all the local kids with a German background looked like he did.

It’s a nice niche to have but it’s not something we sit around and think about, … But it is true. Duos don’t last very long. It’s a very unusual dynamic. It has to be...

If it wasn’t for music, I doubt whether we’d be friends.

This music is like an old friend, one for whom you will always feel a kinship and closeness. When people hear this recording they will understand more clearly the roots of our original songs and...

To me, when a great band is playing together, it’s amazing for me.

I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

The purpose of this communication is a heads-up,

If something that needs to be done that we don’t feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

We both have so much in common,

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

I like playing on stage, don’t get me wrong.

We just wanted to make sure every song, like if you could sit down and play it with an acoustic guitar or whatever, it stood on its own, … And we wanted to make the...

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...

[Which is why it’s spectacularly appropriate that The Funk Brothers – Motown’s original house band – are opening up for Hall & Oates.] It’s a great bill, … We’re carrying on their tradition. So we’ll...

We should have an easier name to pronounce.

I live in the middle of the mountains in Aspen Colorado, I have the tractor on my ranch. Right out my door is thousands of acres of national forest.

In the ’80s Milli Vanilli was ruined by lip-synching, … but now it’s looked upon as enhancing people’s careers. Today the weirder and creepier your life is, the more successful you are. There no longer...

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.

I think what we realized was that we would do songs that either had a personal connection to us or a professional connection to us,

We’ve been together since we’ve been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it’s like nothing ever has changed.

I read and fantasized about the European racing scene by pouring over my old collection of Road and Track that goes back to the late 40’s.

We’ve never been apart, … The whole time, we’ve been working and recording. So it’s not about coming back. It’s about continuing. I understand why (some people) might think we had disappeared. Our visibility has...

It’s the music that brings us together.

I think we’ve always prided ourselves and perceived ourselves as songwriters, so it wasn’t an album that we felt we had to do, … But we knew that some day we’ll do an album like...

We’ve done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that’s why we’re still together. That freedom doesn’t keep us too restricted.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio.

I’m a bit more grounded than Daryl. I’m more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the creative side. We have very different families, we’re very different persons. But because we grew up in the...

Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements… there’s usually a butting of heads at one point.