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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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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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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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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 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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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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 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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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The revolution starts now.
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