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I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

I lost my head for a little while.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it ...

Numb is the new deep.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

I know the heart of life is good.

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone ...
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

My hits are not hits.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

I love being the center of attention.

Waiting on the World to Change,

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.

We're still waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again ...

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it ... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday ...

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

I've never been a bad boy.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

How come everything I need always comes with batteries?

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.