Dave Matthews

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

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

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

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

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