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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You wear nothing but you wear it so well. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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'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. "

" 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. "

" If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign. "

" 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. "

" How could I have been anyone other than me? "