Quotes from Dave Matthews

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.

Love, you drive me to distraction.

Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.

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.

And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

Move into kiss those sweet sugar lips, baby looks just like love.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.

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

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

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

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.

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

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.

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

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

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.

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.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

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?

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.