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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'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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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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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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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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 creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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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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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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