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The revolution starts now.

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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
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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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