I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“He had entered into every relationship in his life in good faith, reveling in the breathless flush of new love for as… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.” — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Their life together was filled with bright mornings and starlit nights that consistently outshone the darker times between. Even those hard days… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. — 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
