You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
From Steve Earle
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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.
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
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.
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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