Quote

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

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
Way
Things
Differently
Especially

More quotes by Steve Earle

Image
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
Steve Earle
Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Steve Earle
Image
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
Steve Earle
Image
Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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
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
Image
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
Image
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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
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
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
Steve Earle
Image
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
Steve Earle
Image
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
Image
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
Steve Earle
Image
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
Steve Earle
Image
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
Steve Earle