Now you wear your skin like iron

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.

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.

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.

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

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.