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" 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. "

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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. "

" When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing. "

" I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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