Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Steve Earle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Fort Monroe National Monument
Stephen Fain Earle
Four
Hours
Write
Ringing
Three
Soccer
Kids
Phone
Home
Starts
Writing
Phones
Lucky
More quotes by Steve Earle
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
Steve Earle
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
Steve Earle
My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
Steve Earle
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
Steve Earle
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
Steve Earle
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
Steve Earle
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Steve Earle
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
Steve Earle
I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
Steve Earle
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
Steve Earle
Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
Steve Earle
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
Steve Earle
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
Steve Earle
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Steve Earle
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
Steve Earle
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Steve Earle
I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
Steve Earle
