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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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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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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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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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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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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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