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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.

Steve Earle

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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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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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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 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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