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
I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
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....
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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.
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.
pushing the edge of the envelope to attract attention, but it's the wrong subject at the wrong time. He's been going nowhere fast for a long time, and while this may draw fleeting attention, it won't save his faltering career.
Even though I talk about them every day, I was still incredibly nervous and shaken. It was a stressful situation.
At that point one of the nurses and I reached for the button at the same time and delivered one shock.