Steve Earle Quotes

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

If you want to be happy, be.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I'm doing it just because I really enjoy it. I'm not trying to "make it" anymore. I'm not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I'm just enjoying it.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so real and so tangible that you don't want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That's so beautiful. It's like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

Be satisfied with what you have.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.