Daryl Franklin Hohl Quotes
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I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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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.
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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.
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I do a project, and then I move on.
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What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
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Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
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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, and people would gather around.
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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.
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I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
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Who knows what the right time to get married is?
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
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If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
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Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
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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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Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
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If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
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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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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 thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.
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Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
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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?
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I've been traveling around the world forever.