209 Quotes by Steve Earle

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they’ll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they’ve already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can’t, I’d rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

I don’t care what’s happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven’t in a long time.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that’s probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don’t know.

I think it’s obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

There’s a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you’ve got a record out there and that you’re still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn’t exist anymore.

I don’t think I’m a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it’s in my fabric.

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.