Born Quote by Steve Earle

When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not…

— Steve Earle

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 anymore.

— Steve Earle

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have…

— Steve Earle

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

— Steve Earle

I had everything I need to get me killed.

— Steve Earle

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan…

— Steve Earle

I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part…

— Steve Earle

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

— Steve Earle

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

— Steve Earle

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact…

— Steve Earle

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

— Steve Earle

When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and…

— Steve Earle