Das Zitat im Original: „The music evokes an America of masquerade and striptease, a world of seedy old-time gin palaces, fast cash, poison whiskey, guilty strangers trying not to make eye contact, pickpockets slapping out-of-towners on the back. “Love and Theft” comes on as a musical autobiography that also sounds like a casual, almost accidental history of the country.“ Aus der Besprechung des Albums von Rob Sheffield vom 27. September 2001 auf der Website rollingstone.com (abgerufen am 14. Dezember 2022).