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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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 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 was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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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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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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 separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
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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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