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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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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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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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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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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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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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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The revolution starts now.
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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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