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I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.

Dave Matthews

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Dave Matthews
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 9
Actor
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
David John Matthews
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I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
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