I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. — Steve Earle Counterculture Copy Share Image
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. — Steve Earle Criticism Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. — Steve Earle Cities 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 Care Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle Comfortable Copy Share Image
I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things. — Steve Earle Bills Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot. — Steve Earle Audience 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
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly… — Steve Earle Grammar Copy Share Image
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as… — Steve Earle Deep Copy Share Image
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force… — Steve Earle Air 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 Amazes 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
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 Bob 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 Am Copy Share Image
I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio… — Steve Earle Big Copy Share Image
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind… — Steve Earle Album 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 Bigger 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 Cds Copy Share Image
My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day… — Steve Earle Autism Copy Share Image
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've… — Steve Earle Consequences Copy Share Image
You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing… — Steve Earle 80s Copy Share Image
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle Anomalies Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago. — Steve Earle Knows Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs. — Steve Earle British Copy Share Image
Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me... — Steve Earle Funny Copy Share Image
I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up. — Steve Earle Racism Copy Share Image
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into. — Steve Earle Good Copy Share Image
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle Ends Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. — Steve Earle Leisure Copy Share Image
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. — Steve Earle Hardest Copy Share Image
I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world. — Steve Earle Doubt Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes. — Steve Earle Beginning Copy Share Image
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. — Steve Earle Dad Copy Share Image
I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic. — Steve Earle Age Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.” — Steve Earle Avoiding Copy Share Image
