52 Quotes by Justin Townes Earle

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play,

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.