I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

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.

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.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." BlancheSomethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate

Words are but empty thanks.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

Socialism is always wrong.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

Reason is the illusion of reality

Silence is a great peacemaker.

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

God gives enabling grace to go on.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.