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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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The revolution starts now.
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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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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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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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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.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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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 singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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