At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and … - Steve Earle

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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Steve Earle

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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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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Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

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He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

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I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

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I ain't ever satisfied.

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