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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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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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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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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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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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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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