209 Quotes by Steve Earle

Funerals are a pagan rite. There’s not any doubt about it.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it’s anything else. It just doesn’t fly if it isn’t musical.

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.

I’m from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there’s his voice – an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what’s going on in the world really bizarre.

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

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

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.