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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
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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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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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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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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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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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'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'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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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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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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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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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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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