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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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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 don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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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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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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The revolution starts now.
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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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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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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 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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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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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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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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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