Steve Earle

The revolution starts now.

— Steve Earle

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

— Steve Earle

I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.

— Steve Earle

I had everything I need to get me killed.

— Steve Earle

I don't usually read reviews.

— Steve Earle

I ain't ever satisfied.

— Steve Earle

You can't write if you don't read.

— Steve Earle

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

— Steve Earle

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

— Steve Earle

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

— Steve Earle

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

— Steve Earle

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

— Steve Earle

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

— Steve Earle

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

— Steve Earle

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

— Steve Earle

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

— Steve Earle

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay…

— Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you…

— Steve Earle

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of…

— Steve Earle

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I…

— Steve Earle

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

— Steve Earle

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same…

— Steve Earle

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

— Steve Earle

I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe…

— Steve Earle

You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing…

— Steve Earle

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've…

— Steve Earle

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day…

— Steve Earle

By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard…

— Steve Earle

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the…

— Steve Earle

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because…

— Steve Earle

“She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as…

— Steve Earle

“Lonely's a temporary condition, a cloud that blocks out the sun for a spell and then makes the sunshine seem even brighter…

— Steve Earle

When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that…

— Steve Earle

When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in…

— Steve Earle

“As he left room 817, Nguyen turned for one final look before he allowed the soldiers to enter and remove the body.…

— Steve Earle

“He had entered into every relationship in his life in good faith, reveling in the breathless flush of new love for as…

— Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

— Steve Earle

The play's about forgiveness,

— Steve Earle

New Orleans is a unique environment.

— Steve Earle