I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

- John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

- John Oates

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

- John Oates

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

- John Oates

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

- John Oates

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

- John Oates

It's the music that brings us together.

- John Oates

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

- John Oates

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

- John Oates

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

- John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

- John Oates

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 at the cake itself, it's really the same.

- John Oates

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

- John Oates

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

- John Oates

I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.

- John Oates

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

- John Oates

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

- John Oates

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

- John Oates

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

- John Oates

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

- John Oates