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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.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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'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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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