209 Quotes by Steve Earle

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

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

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.