I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. — Steve Earle Criticism Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. — Steve Earle Adversity Copy Share Image
I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. — Steve Earle Counterculture 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'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago. — Steve Earle 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 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 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
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 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
I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my… — 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 Hard days Copy Share Image
I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow… — 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
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 Bluegrass 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 Around the world 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle Anomalies Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle 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
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. — Steve Earle Dad Copy Share Image
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. — Steve Earle 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
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
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle 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
