I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.

I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.

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

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

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

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

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