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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
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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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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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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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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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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 don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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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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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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