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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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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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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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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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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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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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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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