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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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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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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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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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The revolution starts now.
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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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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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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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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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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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