“My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic styl...” — John Oates Quote

“My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.”

“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.”

“The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.”

“My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.”

“When I started doing the acoustic shows, people would be yelling for 'Hooligan's Holiday' and 'Smoke The Sky,' and I had no idea of how to pull them off.”

“Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.”