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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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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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 creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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