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" Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. "
Sturgill Simpson
Result
Never
Know
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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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Song
Thought
Progress
" 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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Sit
Things
Always
" 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
Talk
Song
People
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Me
Say
" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "
Sturgill Simpson
Religious
Particularly
Kentucky
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Ideas
See
Country
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Down
Hometown
" 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
Will
Career
End
" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "
Sturgill Simpson
Thinks
Crazy
Wife
" I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. "
Sturgill Simpson
Creative
Time
Media
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Get
Curious
Anything
" I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly. "
Sturgill Simpson
Salt
Great
Fun
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Soul
Three
Good
" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "
Sturgill Simpson
Father
Expectations
Myself
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Energy
Feel
God
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Hearts
Write
Broken
" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
Sturgill Simpson
Myself
Never
Sound
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
London
Kind
Irish
" 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
Go
Internet
" Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. "
Sturgill Simpson
Huge
Guys
Influences
" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
Sturgill Simpson
Short
Love
Film
" I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "
Sturgill Simpson
Cut
Country
Tried
" I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music. "
Sturgill Simpson
Beautiful
Want
Pretty
" Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music. "
Sturgill Simpson
Music
Life
My Life
" 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
Me
Writing
Time
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Love
Family
Myself
" 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
Success
Work
People
" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
Sturgill Simpson
Might
Records
Right
" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Always
Know