209 Quotes by Steve Earle

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

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

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

I had everything I need to get me killed.

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

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

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

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.