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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Record Producer
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Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
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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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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 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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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