Steve Earle Quotes
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.
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Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
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I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
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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 alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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 worry about it too much, for me. It gets me way too in myself to worry about what people are going to think about me when I'm not around anymore.
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I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.