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 Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — 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
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the… — Steve Earle 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
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
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago. — 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
