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
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view. — Steve Earle Eight 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 Important Copy Share Image
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government… — Steve Earle Death Copy Share Image
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta… — Steve Earle Believe Copy Share Image
I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first… — Steve Earle Believe Copy Share Image
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. — Steve Earle Execution 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 Beginning middle and end 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 Life Copy Share Image
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. — Steve Earle Being Copy Share Image
I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records,… — Steve Earle Amount Copy Share Image
“She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as… — Steve Earle Good enough Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. — Steve Earle Cities Copy Share Image
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. — Steve Earle America Copy Share Image
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to… — Steve Earle Four Copy Share Image
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did. — Steve Earle Way 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
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything. — Steve Earle Addict 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 Core 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 don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the… — Steve Earle Fingers Copy Share Image
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of… — Steve Earle Crafts Copy Share Image
I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make… — Steve Earle Cities Copy Share Image
I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things. — Steve Earle Bills Copy Share Image
