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 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
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
I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the… — 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 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
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 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
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — 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
