American - Musician | January 17, 1955 -
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Steve Earle
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America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
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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.
TiredViewNowNeverHighwayGet
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.
GodWaterMeFlyDeepHands
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
HeartRespectThinkCriticismTake
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
TruthDeathTruth IsYouDoneKind
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.
GoodHeartPeopleWorldBelieveShe
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
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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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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
YouWaySeeThingsGotDifferently
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
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