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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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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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 dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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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'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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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'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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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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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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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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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've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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