Steve Earle Quotes
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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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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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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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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 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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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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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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 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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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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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'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.
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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.
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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.