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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
Guitarist
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Peace Activist
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Singer-Songwriter
Fort Monroe National Monument
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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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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 had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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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 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've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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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 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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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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The revolution starts now.
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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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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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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