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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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 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. "