209 Quotes by Steve Earle

What’s important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn’t exist, and when you finish you day’s work something is in the world that wasn’t there before.

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

I’m not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I’m not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

I’m a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can’t save m from being a drug addict.

I’ve been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.

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.

You know I ain’t never prayed before ‘Cause it always seemed to me That prayin’s the same as beggin’ Lord, I don’t take no charity.

Maybe I’m not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I’m not as good. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it’s one of the things I’m luckiest.

He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.