It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the… — Steve Earle Amazes Copy Share Image
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly… — Steve Earle Grammar Copy Share Image
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre. — Steve Earle Bizarre Copy Share Image
I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that.… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed… — Steve Earle Bluegrass Copy Share Image
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I… — Steve Earle Audience Copy Share Image
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But… — Steve Earle Depression Copy Share Image
I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture.… — Steve Earle Country Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. — Steve Earle Beginning middle and end Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot. — Steve Earle Audience Copy Share Image
I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. — Steve Earle America Copy Share Image
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle Activism Copy Share Image
I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that… — Steve Earle Actor Copy Share Image
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were… — Steve Earle Art Copy Share Image
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. — Steve Earle Being Copy Share Image
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and… — Steve Earle Baseball Copy Share Image
“Someday I'm finally gonna let go 'cause I know there's a better way, and I wanna know what's over that rainbow...I'm gonna… — Steve Earle Better way Copy Share Image
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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