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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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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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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The revolution starts now.
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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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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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