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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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