Steve Earle Quotes

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
I don't usually read reviews.
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
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.
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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.
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.
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
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.
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.
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.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
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.
Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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