Steve Earle Quotes - Page 3

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I don't usually read reviews.

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

I ain't ever satisfied.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

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

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

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

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.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

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

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.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

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.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

The revolution starts now.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

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

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

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.

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