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

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

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.

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

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.

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

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

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