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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.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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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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 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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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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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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