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" Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress. "

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" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer. "

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" I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was a mile away from the stage, and I swear to God, I could feel her energy. "

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" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

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" I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "

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" Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it. "

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" It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Some people will say, and have said, that I'm trying to run from country, but I'm never going to make anything other than a country record. "

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" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

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

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" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "

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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "

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" I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "

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" There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at. "

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

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

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

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" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "

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" 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. "

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" I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures. "

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" 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. "

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