The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.
— Steve Lukather
People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.
In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.
I was doing our first album when I was 19. It came out as a hit, and I blinked - then 37 years went by. There's a lot of stuff that happened in there, but once the snowball started going down the hill, I took the ride.
I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.
We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?
A lot of festivals on a worldwide basis that I am seeing, they're trying to multi-genre it. Like, they put a wild card band on, like, us old guys that happen to have a record that has stayed in pop culture for as long as it has.
I listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot.
I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
The Beatles are the 'on switch' to my life.
If it wasn't for Boz, my life would've changed. Meeting the Porcaro brothers and getting that Boz Scaggs gig were two life-changing events for me. It all fell into place after that.
I played on Asia records with Geoff Downes.
There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.
I don't just sit around and play 'Africa' in my house.
Fans are always in for a treat when they see us in person.
The music business used to be filled with people who love music.
I just think that there is something that keeps us together, to keep doing what we're doing. I can't really put my finger on it other than each record is like a little snapshot of my life at that particular moment, the way I play, the way I sound, the way I wrote, the way I sing, I can hear it.
Nobody loves everybody.
There's nobody like us in rock history. I'm not saying we're the greatest band in the world - that would be ridiculous.
Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.
I get up now at 5:30 in the morning. I practice the guitar for a couple of hours - I do that before I even start my day.
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'
When you're young, you can burn the candle at both ends, and you're fine.
I'm no musical snob.
I worked with Paul McCartney, and he was lovely.
Vocally and stylistically, we'd have different kinds of songs come on the radio, and people didn't realize it was the same band. A lot of the time, a casual fan would come see us and go, 'I didn't know that you guys did that song. I didn't know that was you!' That was us!
We were never the trendiest band, but we've always been here.
If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.
I'm always writing music.
We always felt it helped during live shows to have multiple lead singers to give our voices a break.
I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!
Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.
I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.
Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.
There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.
'Rosanna' was the hit, but 'Africa' resonated with everyone who heard it.
I got caught up in 35 years of Saturday nights. Every night was like party night to me. As a young man, you can do that; it's OK to be an idiot. But I woke up one day, and I realized that 35 years had gone by.
The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.
There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.
I've got the coolest job in the world.
We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.
When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me.
I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.
I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.
I got four kids.
You look out in our audiences, you don't see a sea of white-haired people. You see a lot of younger people.
We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.
I ain't the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've dedicated my life to music since I was 7 and my dad bought me a guitar and the 'Meet the Beatles' album.
When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.
