Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

Everything diminishes and everything is destructible.

Children should be able to live a life free from electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure and radio frequency (RF) radiation pollution and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.

Time is a wonderful storyteller.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

Fans always tell me I'm beautiful, but no one will ever be as beautiful as them

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.