Quotes About Steve Earle

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

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

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.