John Oates

“A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.”

“If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!”

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