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- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
- Nov 07, 2020
You wear nothing but you wear it so well.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How could I have been anyone other than me?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
- Gracefully
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blatant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020