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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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