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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. "

" Well, I've been in a few car wrecks. "

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

" We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. "

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

" I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. "

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

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

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

" 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. "