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. Steve Earle Read Quote
Me, I’m spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that’s about as close to God as I get. Steve Earle Read Quote
We’re so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there’s something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you’re going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn’t have to be this big, negative bummer. Steve Earle Read Quote
I’m from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee. Steve Earle Read Quote
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. Steve Earle Read Quote
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I’ve done it, and there’s consequences, but it can be done. Death you’re not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. Steve Earle Read Quote
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. Steve Earle Read Quote
I don’t really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. Steve Earle Read Quote
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. Steve Earle Read Quote
