209 Quotes by Steve Earle

I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.