When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre. — 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
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
What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is… — 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
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
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because… — 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
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
