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" 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. "
Dave Matthews
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" 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. "
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" There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on. "
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" When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "
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" 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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" I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. "
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" In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. "
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" The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "
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" You wear nothing but you wear it so well. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. "
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" I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. "
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" Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything. "
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" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "
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" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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