The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content…

- Matt Nathanson

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's …

- Matt Nathanson

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

- Matt Nathanson

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

- Matt Nathanson

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

- Matt Nathanson

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

- Matt Nathanson

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

- Matt Nathanson

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

- Matt Nathanson

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

- Matt Nathanson