Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earleis an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
New Orleans is a unique environment.
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.
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view.
I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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.
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.
Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...
I had everything I need to get me killed.
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.