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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
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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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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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