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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.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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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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