John Oates Quotes

I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it's actually been really nice.

We are so grateful we are given the chance and the freedom to do what we want, what we want to create, what's on our mind, and that's honestly what we asked for in the beginning of our career.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?

I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He's a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that's a little bit different than what his father does.

I have been lucky that good people have chosen me to be a part of their films, and I am really grateful.

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a concerted effort to maintain this standard for myself.

I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to create a part for me or a project for me. I can just do it. And that's so great.

I'm so grateful to be able to do music.

I really feel like the stars have aligned many ways, many times for me. I have been blessed to play some awesome roles and nuanced and meaningful characters.

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

I've been blessed to get the kind of films I have done.

I could have never had any kind of creative freedom on TV, so then I did movies! Now, I am able to do all kinds of entertainment... and that, I feel, is the biggest blessing!

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.