Wisdom from Matchbox Twenty

Sometimes you’ll find truths that resonate with you at the unlikeliest of places. For example this one by Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas, talking about their song “Unwell”:

I’ve come to one conclusion, and that’s… In 31 years I’ve found out that everybody in the world – everybody in the world is a little bit fucked up, okay? And it’s okay, it’s okay – when you’re young, when you’re young you think it’s just you. You’re at home, you’re trying to hide it, you figure maybe you’ll grow out of it, maybe sooner or later you’ll get like all of the other people. And what you don’t know when you’re young is that it’s everybody, man! Everybody is a little bit fucked up. And so as you get older, as you get older you have two kinds of people: you have the fortunate people, who realize it early on, man, and they let their Freak Flag fly, and they have a good time, and they…they don’t think too hard about it, they don’t take themselves too seriously. And then there’s those poor bastards on the other side, that are still trying to play it cool, man. Every day: “I’m not fucked up!” So this song goes out to all the wonderfully enlightened people in Atlanta here tonight who know that it’s okay to be a little bit fucked up every now and then.

Found on Matchbox Twenty’s live DVD. Which has terrible sound quality but is still fun to listen to when it comes up in the iPod shuffle.