209 Quotes by Steve Earle

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I’m pretty f – ing optimistic.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don’t want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Politics and music don’t necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...

You know, I’m not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don’t sell millions of records, and I don’t need to.

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.

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

San Antonio is like a military town. It’s like literally – when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

I grew up counterculture. I’m essentially a hippie, and I’m essentially a folkie.