Quotes by : Steve Earle

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the....

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

...introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered....

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

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for....

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's....

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about....

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know,....

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out....