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

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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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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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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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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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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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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