Dave Matthews

“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.”

“Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.”

“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.”

“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!”

“The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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. Can you milk a bison?”

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

“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.”