Steve Earle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.”

“We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.”

“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.”

“Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Having a child at 55... that's optimism.”

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