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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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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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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 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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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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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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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 do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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