Daryl Hall

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. ”

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. ”

Having a solo career is a funny thing. ”

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. ”

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'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. ”

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

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. ”

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. ”

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person. ”