American - Musician | January 17, 1955 -
I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.
Steve Earle
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.
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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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New Orleans is a unique environment.
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We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.
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The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.
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Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
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