Steve Earle Quotations | Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

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

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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.

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