209 Quotes by Steve Earle

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

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.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

New Orleans is a unique environment.

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

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.