Daryl Hall

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

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.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.