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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
Steve Earle
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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.
Steve Earle -
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.
Steve Earle -
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.
Steve Earle -
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
Steve Earle -
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Steve Earle -
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
Steve Earle
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
Steve Earle -
New Orleans is a unique environment.
Steve Earle -
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
Steve Earle -
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
Steve Earle -
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.
Steve Earle -
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.
Steve Earle
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
Steve Earle -
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
Steve Earle -
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 in the world that wasn't there before.
Steve Earle -
I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.
Steve Earle -
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
Steve Earle -
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
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I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.
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To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
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 the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.
Steve Earle -
I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.
Steve Earle