I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle 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
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
I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write… — Steve Earle Girl Copy Share Image
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“[T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't… — Steve Earle Death Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe… — Steve Earle 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
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
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last… — Steve Earle 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 Copy Share Image
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's… — Steve Earle Afterlife Copy Share Image
Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive… — Steve Earle Alive Copy Share Image
My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue. — Steve Earle 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 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 Communication 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
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. — Steve Earle Enemy Copy Share Image
I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay… — Steve Earle 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 Copy Share Image
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship. — Steve Earle Agreement Copy Share Image
People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same… — Steve Earle Language Copy Share Image
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system. — Steve Earle Democrat 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 Country Copy Share Image
You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word… — Steve Earle 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
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. — Steve Earle Interest Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years… — Steve Earle Audience 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 Copy Share Image
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee. — Steve Earle Beautiful Copy Share Image
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the… — Steve Earle 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 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 Copy Share Image
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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