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" Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there. "

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" That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was. "

Sturgill Simpson

Heart

Family

Dedication

" London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from. "

" Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence. "

Sturgill Simpson

Isolation

Opportunity

" I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows. "

Sturgill Simpson

Everything

Where

" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "

" I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore. "

" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "

" I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that. "

Sturgill Simpson

Honest

Will

" I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music. "

" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "

" Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. "

" You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there. "

" I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. "

" The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that's free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don't want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations. "

" You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. "

" Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try to write country songs. But really, all good music is just soul music. "

" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "

" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "

" Saviours get crucified. "

Sturgill Simpson

Crucified

Get

" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "

" I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know. "

" I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope. "

" I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to. "

" I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it. "

Sturgill Simpson

Find

Internet

" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "

Sturgill Simpson

Sunday

Playing

" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "

" I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects. "

" I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit down and do things, he wants to be there with me and play the guitar. "

Sturgill Simpson

Writing

Time

" I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and connect with my music. "

" I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do. "

Sturgill Simpson

Want

Three