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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'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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'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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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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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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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