209 Quotes by Steve Earle

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.

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

I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

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.