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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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