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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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