Steve Earle

Steve Earle: "One thing that breaks my heart is we have sort of reached this level of this thing that we like to call 'pragmatism' and beginning to pragmatism with an absolute lack of faith in human beings... And a lot's gonna have to change. We're reaching the point where it's gonna have to change. It's not 'next week', ya know."

"The US is no longer gonna be the most powerful nation in the world in my children's lifetime, even in my lifetime. I knew it was gonna happen, but it's happening even faster than I thought. Global warming is for real. Man you can sit around and argue about that's causing it. I think that the fact that the people that were directly causing, contributing the most to its happening - in other words the people that had a stake in us continuing to do the things exactly the same way we were doin' - I think it's really interesting that for years they denied that it even happened. Now they've dropped back to a position of: 'yeah, it's happening, but it's not our fault.' So that makes me suspicious when they say 'it's not our fault'. They protested too much..."