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

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.

come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

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

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

Now you wear your skin like iron

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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.