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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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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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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 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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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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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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