People will frighten you about a graduation. . . . They use words you don't hear often.
I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
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.
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 are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.
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.
Your neck. I want to kiss it.
He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?
We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.