Steve Earle Quotes
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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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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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 ain't ever satisfied.
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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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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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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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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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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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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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.