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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us. "

" 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 want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself. "

" The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" You wear nothing but you wear it so well. "

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