Quote

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Steve Earle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Girl
Song
Write
Else
Stills
Still
Anything
Girls
Writing
Songs

More quotes by Steve Earle

Image
The revolution starts now.
Steve Earle
Image
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
Steve Earle
Image
I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
Steve Earle
Image
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
Steve Earle
Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
Steve Earle
Image
I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
Steve Earle
Image
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
Steve Earle
Image
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.
Steve Earle
Image
I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
Steve Earle
Image
Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
Steve Earle
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
Steve Earle
Image
I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
Steve Earle
Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Steve Earle
Image
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.
Steve Earle
Image
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
Steve Earle
Image
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
Steve Earle
Image
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
Steve Earle
Image
I had everything I need to get me killed.
Steve Earle