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
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time. — 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 Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much… — 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
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard… — 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
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 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
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