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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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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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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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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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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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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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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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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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