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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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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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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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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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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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'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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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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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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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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