Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

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.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.

I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

Must one dread what others dread?

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.