"For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs."

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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.

— Steve Earle