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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

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end. — Steve Earle

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time. — Steve Earle

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. — 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

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. — Steve Earle

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue. — Steve Earle

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. — Steve Earle

You can't write if you don't read. — Steve Earle

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world. — Steve Earle

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point. — Steve Earle

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that. — Steve Earle

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. — Steve Earle

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle

I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me. — Steve Earle

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity. — 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

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot. — Steve Earle

I don't usually read reviews. — Steve Earle

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me ... — Steve Earle

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. — Steve Earle

The revolution starts now. — Steve Earle

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book. — Steve Earle

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. — 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

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. — Steve Earle

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. — Steve Earle

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot. — Steve Earle

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

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die
maybe. — Steve Earle

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get. — Steve Earle

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes. — 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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into. — Steve Earle

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle

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. — 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

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. — 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

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things. — Steve Earle

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating. — Steve Earle

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right. — Steve Earle

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f
ing optimistic. — 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'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago. — Steve Earle

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. — Steve Earle

It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. — Steve Earle

I ain't ever satisfied ... — Steve Earle

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. — 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

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

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. — 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

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle

I had everything I need to get me killed. — Steve Earle

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs. — Steve Earle

I still write more songs about girls than anything else. — Steve Earle

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years. — 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

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar. — 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

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. — Steve Earle

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything. — Steve Earle