Quotes from Dave Matthews

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

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.

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

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

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out...

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

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.

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

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

the future is no place to place your better days

if you give, you begin to live.

Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

I will go in this way And find my own way out

Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

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.