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.

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.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

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.

Now you wear your skin like iron

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