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
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did. – 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
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
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what’s going on in the world really bizarre. – 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
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
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I’ve done it, and there’s consequences, but it can be done. Death you’re not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. – Steve Earle
I’ve been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view. – Steve Earle
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. – Steve Earle
I think it’s obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. – Steve Earle
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. – 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
My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That’s the only one I’ve ever had. I didn’t have one before that. – Steve Earle
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It’s not the best environment for that sometimes. – 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
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. – Steve Earle
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. – 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 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
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it’s people from all over the world. – 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
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. – Steve Earle
