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

My songs are like a three–legged dog–you have to get to know them to have any love for them. — Dave Matthews

Love, you drive me to distraction. — Dave Matthews

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

I believe in love, but believe it’s love that keeps beating me down. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

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

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I’m guessing, I’ll spend more time back there as I get older. — Dave Matthews

There’s a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on. — Dave Matthews

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

The brightest star on a cloudless night Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky… Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind There’s time to dream and there’s time to open your eyes — Dave Matthews

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other… maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever. — Dave Matthews

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days. — Dave Matthews

If you live life, then you become what are. — Dave Matthews

In so many areas of life, I’m a spaz and incompetent. — Dave Matthews

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

Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig — Dave Matthews

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

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? — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master. — Dave Matthews

The problem is someone will try to convince you That they know the answer no matter the question Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world ‘Cause it’s just ….. crazy–you know that it is — Dave Matthews

Would you not like to be, sittin’ on top of the world with your legs hanging free? — Dave Matthews

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? — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all. — Dave Matthews

The idea that we’re somehow centrally important to the planet’s existence is pretty comical–although I’d like us to be. — Dave Matthews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Dave Matthews

The reason I play music is to touch people–for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it’s a kiss, a painting, good idea or it’s a song. — Dave Matthews

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

I don’t believe in trickle–down economics. I don’t think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. — Dave Matthews

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

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. — Dave Matthews

I can’t believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can’t believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. — Dave Matthews

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

I use God in my songs a lot but I don’t have a relationship. I don’t know what that means. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

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. — Dave Matthews

I definitely like the oddballs. There’s a song called ‘Little Thing,’ which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it’s the one that I get past my critic inside me. — Dave Matthews

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody’s heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song. — Dave Matthews