Steve Earle Quotes

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Music was very influential on me as a kid.
My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.
New Orleans is a unique environment.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
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