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.
Dave MatthewsI use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
Dave MatthewsWe look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.
Dave Matthews