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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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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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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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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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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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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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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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