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I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.

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

She runs up into the light surprised
Her arms are opened
Her mind's eye is
Seeing things from a better side than most can dream

Don't burn the day away.

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too ... each moment the more I love you.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I fade away, fade away

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.

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.

I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.

Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

Love, you drive me to distraction.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

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.

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

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

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

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

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

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing,
you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

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

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

She thinks, "Hey,
How did I come to this?
I dream myself a thousand times around the world,
But I can't get out of this place"

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

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

When I step into the light
My arms are open wide
When I step into the light
My eyes searching wildly

Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?

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

How could I have been anyone other than me?

Sitting still as stone watching - watching
People walking by you wondering why
No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

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.

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

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

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

You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

Don't lose the dreams inside your head
They'll only be there until you're dead
Dream

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.

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

If you live life, then you become what are.

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

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same

Everything good needs replacing

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

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

Out of the darkness comes light like a flash
You think you can, you think you can
Sometimes that is the problem
Dream little darling dream

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

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

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

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on.

To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.

Are you looking for answers, to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, You can rest with me until a brighter day It's okay

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

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 ...

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

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

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'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

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.

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.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

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

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

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

If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.

Keep it locked up inside
Don't talk about it
Talk about the weather
Can't see the light

Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

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

One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

I hate to admit it, but we're badass.

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

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.

Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down?
Is this real or am I dreaming?

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

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean ...

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.

Everyday should be a good day to die

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around ...

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

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?