“I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and coun...” — Justin Townes Earle Quote

“I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.”

“I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.”

“There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.”

“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”

“Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”