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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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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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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 from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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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.
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