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I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.
— 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
You can't write if you don't read.
— Steve Earle
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
— Steve Earle
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
— Steve Earle
I don't usually read reviews.
— Steve Earle
The revolution starts now.
— Steve Earle
I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
— Steve Earle
I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
— Steve Earle
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die maybe. — Steve Earle
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
— Steve Earle
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.
— Steve Earle
I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken,
— Townes Van Zandt
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
— Steve Earle
I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
— Steve Earle
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
— 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
Music was very influential on me as a kid.
— Steve Earle
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
— Steve Earle
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
— Steve Earle
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
— 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
My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.
— Steve Earle
I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.
— Steve Earle
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
— Steve Earle
Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
— Steve Earle
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
— Steve Earle
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
— Steve Earle
I ain't ever satisfied ...
— Steve Earle
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
— Steve Earle
New Orleans is a unique environment.
— Steve Earle
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.
— Steve Earle
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
— Steve Earle
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
— Steve Earle
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
— Steve Earle
I had everything I need to get me killed.
— Steve Earle
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
— Steve Earle
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
— Steve Earle
Steve Earle, the thinking man's Bruce Springsteen,
— Ian McEwan
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
— Steve Earle
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
— Steve Earle
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
— Steve Earle
