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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Record Producer
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Fort Monroe National Monument
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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 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 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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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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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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The revolution starts now.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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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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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 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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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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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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