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

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'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.

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

A great life starts within

The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.

A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.