Quotes from Dave Matthews

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

Everyday should be a good day to die

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.

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

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.

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

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.

You wear nothing but you wear it so well.

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.

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

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!

Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.

Because life is short but sweet for certain

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.

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.

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