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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions. "

" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "