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

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.

Speed doesn't matter, Concentration matters.

Husband: a former boyfriend

Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over.

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

I hate when people make a really good product and then stop making it. I get annoyed.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.