Steve Earle Art Quotations

To me, this is about sticking to my guns and keeping my word to the artists involved.

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 the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

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

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.