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Steve Earle
American
Musician
About the author
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
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.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
#World
#Coffee
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
#Heart
#Respect
#Writers
#Criticism
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,
American
Musician
#God
#Deep
#Water
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,
American
Musician
#Writing
#English
#Song
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
#World
#Islam
#Bizarre
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
#Obstacles
I don't usually read reviews.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
Steve Earle,
American
Musician
#Leisure