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.

Im the mold that grunge was grown in.

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

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 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.

Now you wear your skin like iron

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