The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. — Steve Earle 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 Actor Copy Share Image
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Someday I'm finally gonna let go 'cause I know there's a better way, and I wanna know what's over that rainbow...I'm gonna… — Steve Earle Better way 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
“...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient… — Steve Earle Addiction Copy Share Image
“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds… — Steve Earle Psychology Copy Share Image
My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be… — Steve Earle 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
I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the… — Steve Earle America Copy Share Image
I don't get in vote in whether or how people remember me when I'm gone. It's really dangerous to sit around and… — Steve Earle 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
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 Copy Share Image
Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were… — Steve Earle Art 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've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view. — Steve Earle 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 Copy Share Image
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe… — Steve Earle 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
You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture.… — Steve Earle Country Copy Share Image
