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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
Steve Earle
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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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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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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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 do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
Steve Earle
I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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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The revolution starts now.
Steve Earle
My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
Steve Earle
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
Steve Earle
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
Steve Earle
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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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
Steve Earle
