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" A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. "

" A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever. "

" Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that. "

" Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. "

" For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me. "

" Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. "

" How could I have been anyone other than me? "

" I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. "

" I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me. "

" I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. "

" I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in. "

" I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. "

" I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. "

" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

" If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign. "

" I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. "

" I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere. "

" I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older. "

" I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make. "

" I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. "

" I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find. "

" I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. "

" I'm a very vicious critic of myself. "

" I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. "

" I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it. "

" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

" I never went to college - I barely got out of high school. "

" In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. "

" I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence. "

" I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw. "

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