Steve Earle Quotes
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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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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.
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From the moment Bob Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was so much better than everybody else around.
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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 criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
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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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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.
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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.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
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I ain't ever satisfied.