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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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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've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's when the producer has a window.' So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me. "

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" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "

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" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead of 26 because I - I'm just such a homebody, and I just want to write songs and make the best record that I can. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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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" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "

Sturgill Simpson

" It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson