“All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us t...” — Steve Earle Quote

“All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.”

“Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.”

“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.”

“Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.”

“I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.”

“Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.”

“I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.”

“When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.”

“I take my craft very seriously.”

“I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.”

“I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.”

“I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.”