Steve Earle interview at the Guardian

[Cian]

'As if to signal straight away that he is not your average blue-collar
American troubadour, Steve Earle begins his morning at London's Grosvenor
House hotel by enthusing about the writings of Karl Marx. He had his first
crack at reading Capital - "those three big fuckin' books" - when he was
growing up in Schertz, near San Antonio, Texas. "Marx talked in analogies,
the way Texans do," he says, with the merest hint of a smirk. "I'm sort of
comfortable with that."'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,797228,00.html