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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Fort Monroe National Monument
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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
Steve Earle
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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
Steve Earle
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
Steve Earle
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 not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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.
Steve Earle
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
Steve Earle
I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
Steve Earle
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 not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
Steve Earle
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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