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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

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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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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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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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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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The revolution starts now.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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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 just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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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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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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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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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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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