Steve Earle Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.”

“You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.”

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

“Music was very influential on me as a kid.”

“You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.”

“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.”

“I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.”

“It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.”

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

“You can't write if you don't read.”