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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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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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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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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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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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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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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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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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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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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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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.
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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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