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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
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Fort Monroe National Monument
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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The revolution starts now.
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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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 don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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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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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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