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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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Fort Monroe National Monument
Stephen Fain Earle
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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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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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 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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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 had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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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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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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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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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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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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