The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle 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
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. — 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 I have… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part… — Steve Earle 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 the fact… — 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 recited. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image