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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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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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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 not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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