We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
— Paul Simon
We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
