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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

" It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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