I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

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.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

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.

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

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.