Dave Matthews Quotes

I do like to belong to a man.

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

When I'm in a relationship, I give my heart and soul to it and do it 100 percent.

I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

You have to reinvent love.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.

I just want to love and be loved.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

I trust my wife more than I trust myself.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.