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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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" 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. "

Dave Matthews

Know

I Can

Roads

" 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. "

Dave Matthews

Time

Long

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

" 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. "

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

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

Dave Matthews

Crush

Direction

" 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. "

" I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Dave Matthews

You

Songs

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

" We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked! "

" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dave Matthews

Top

Front

" I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. "

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

" 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. "

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

Dave Matthews

Angels

Better

" 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. "