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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
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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 revolution starts now.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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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 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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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've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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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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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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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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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