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.
Dave MatthewsI think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
Dave MatthewsIt's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
Dave MatthewsIt's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.
Dave Matthews