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" We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer. "

Steve Earle

Life

Culture

Death

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

" 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. "

" I don't usually read reviews. "

Steve Earle

Reviews

Read

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

" 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

Song

Singing

" Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. "

" Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. "

" I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. "

" They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. "

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

Steve Earle

Deep

Water

" 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. "

" I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be. "

Steve Earle

Believe

Crime

" I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore. "

" Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre. "

" America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. "

" If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything. "

" My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. "

Steve Earle

Democracy

Death

" The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that. "

" I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. "

" Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. "

" I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. "