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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
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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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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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 don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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The revolution starts now.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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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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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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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'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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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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