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I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do – in any way.

Daryl Hall

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
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Around Belief Six Year Years
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
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Age Golden Thinking
To me, there’s two kinds of music these days. There’s ephemeral music, and there’s music that has lasting power and depth.
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Depth Ephemeral Two
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.
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Century Creativity Mean Medium Teenager Waiting
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.
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Circuit Inspire Local Memories Mother Teacher
Nobody’s going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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Hard Millions Nobody Records
Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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Circles Cousin Trave Wife
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet’s killing the record business, I say, ‘Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.
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Difference Differences Generations People Record Saying
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I’m not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it’s cool.
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Artific Definitely Dislike Pomposity People Perceive Song Writing
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
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Hero Heroes Influence Singers Smoky
Success and failure are equally surprising.
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Failure Success Surprising
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
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Bob Care Everybody Green Matter
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.
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Around Arrangement Scatty Singers Song Trying
Americans think that if you’re popular, there must be something wrong with you.
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Country Popular Something Thinking
As I got older, my voice got better.
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Better Older Voice
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
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Agriculture Black Integrated Philadelphia Town
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 flu!
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Away Bed Fever Going Return Upstage
If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.
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Good Hard Work Something
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it’s pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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Artist Cliche End Trying
Any song I don’t feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it’s because I want to.
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Feel Good Song Want
I’m in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People’s interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
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Always Converse Ebb Fascinate Flow Outside People Understanding World
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.
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Country Wanted Language Musically People Soul
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that’s an amazing feeling. I don’t think anything’s quite as good as that.
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Amazing Flash Hands Moth Thinking Writing
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke – even death.
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Causes Heart Problem
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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Gone Marriage Relationship Stepchild Stepchildren
I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
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Beginning Fun Mtv Pioneers
I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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Philadelphia Thinking Years

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