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 More Quotes by Steve Earle More Quotes From Steve Earle Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. Steve Earle hardestwantwriting You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. Steve Earle staticdemocracypeople The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard. Steve Earle coupleteacherdrama I don't usually read reviews. Steve Earle reviews I still write more songs about girls than anything else. Steve Earle girlwritingsong 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 singersdustmatter I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee. Steve Earle texasbeautifulyears I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view. Steve Earle eighttiredviews I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into. Steve Earle movedneighbortowns I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to. Steve Earle citiesnew-yorkpeople There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. Steve Earle citiesnew-yorklong The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. Steve Earle creativenew-yorkpeople 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 lack-of-educationinsecurityfiction Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. Steve Earle voicetroublecharacter 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 italianwritingsong 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 cdswritingsong 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 fabricpoliticalthinking Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical. Steve Earle theaterbecomingmusical I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me. Steve Earle new-yorkplaypeople Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore. Steve Earle musicpeoplethinking
