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

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.

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

I know it's the belief that women should never show daring in front of men. Never be bold when men hesitate. I know flight is not the answer

God want to make you like boneless fish.

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.