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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Fort Monroe National Monument
Stephen Fain Earle
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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'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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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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.
Steve Earle
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.
Steve Earle
