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 Able 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… — Steve Earle America 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… — Steve Earle Actors Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle Comfortable 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… — Steve Earle Alleys 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… — Steve Earle Anymore 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… — Steve Earle Depression 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… — Steve Earle Form 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… — Steve Earle Caught up Copy Share Image
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that. — Steve Earle Before Copy Share Image
“As he left room 817, Nguyen turned for one final look before he allowed the soldiers to enter and remove the body.… — Steve Earle Dandelion seeds Copy Share Image
The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of… — Steve Earle Albums 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 Bob Copy Share Image
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and… — Steve Earle Baseball Copy Share Image
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be… — Steve Earle Best 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 Bizarre Copy Share Image
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle Activism 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 Consolation prize Copy Share Image
I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like,… — Steve Earle Because Copy Share Image
Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the… — Steve Earle Film Copy Share Image
