Dave Matthews In Rolling Stone

As promised earlier, here's the political portion of the interview.

Do you ever feel like an outsider in America?
A lot of people feel like outsiders, and we're viewed as outsiders by the government. Or as un-American. But I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney. They have no f---ing idea what it is to be an American. They're f---ing idiots, programmed to have everything in the hands of the few. They think it's right that [they] and theirs have everything and everyone else can just get by on good hard work. There's something charming about a simple man in the White House. But that's what is deceiving; He's not a simple man. He represents the tiniest, tiniest percentage. He got here on the shoulders of giants. And I think much of the Christian world feels an obligation to support him, because he claims to be a Christian. I don't see much of a Christian in him. I think there should be a long line of nuns ready to spank the crap out of him.

Do you think you're more capable of running this country than George W.?
Yeah, I'd deal with things a little more delicately.

How so?
I understand people a lot better than he does. And I don't want the job - but there's no shortage of people who could run the country better than him. The most important task facing America right now is to get this administration out of power. I think they're a very dangerous bunch, riddled with dangerous minds. There's a very ignorant view in the White House: a thoughtless, fundamentalist, scary view of how to better the world. I'm truly frightened by this administration.

Do you plan to be more politically outspoken in 2004?
My focus is to take them out. Hearing myself say that is sort of depressing. I don't know yet who I want to endorse, but I want minds like Kucinich. I want variety. But we're sort of in the avalanche, and we have to stop falling before we can fix it. The Bush administration has squandered everything, and they don't have a f---ing clue.