American - Musician | January 17, 1955 -
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.
Steve Earle
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Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
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My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
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Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
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As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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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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In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
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