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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Fort Monroe National Monument
Stephen Fain Earle
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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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 don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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