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

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Steve Earle

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Steve Earle

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

Steve Earle

I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.

Steve Earle

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

Steve Earle

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Steve Earle

New Orleans is a unique environment.

Steve Earle

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

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

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

Steve Earle

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

Steve Earle

I don't usually read reviews.

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

Steve Earle

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

Steve Earle

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Steve Earle

I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.

Steve Earle

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

Steve Earle

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

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

Steve Earle

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

Steve Earle

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

Steve Earle

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.

Steve Earle

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

Steve Earle