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

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" Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope. "

" I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic. "

" We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. "

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

" Tomorrow is no place to place your better days. "

" I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do. "

" 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. "

" Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too. "

" There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on. "

" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

" Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. "

" It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration. "

" 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. "

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

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

" So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles. "

" I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means. "

" When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. "

" It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing. "

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

" There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together. "

" 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 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. "

" The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song. "

" My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them. "

" It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. "

" Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything. "

" 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. "

" The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "