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" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
Sturgill Simpson
Might
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Right
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" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "
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Grateful
" 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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Back
Music
Work
" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "
Sturgill Simpson
Father
Expectations
Myself
" 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
Love
Good
Life
" 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
Nobody
Studio
Me
" 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 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
Like
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Stars
Country
Music
" 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
" 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
" My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home. "
Sturgill Simpson
War
Home
Son
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Sit
Things
Always
" 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
" You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Time
Thinking
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Say
Country
People
" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
Sturgill Simpson
Band
Everything
Love
" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Way
Tell
" 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
Sit
Three
Write
" Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.' "
Sturgill Simpson
Said
Talk
Know
" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "
Sturgill Simpson
Serving
Interested
Musically
" 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 had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
Sturgill Simpson
Had
Salary
Railroad
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Know
Music
Rock
" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "
Sturgill Simpson
Time
You
Tradition
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Media
Who
Music
" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
Sturgill Simpson
Could
Railroad
Liked
" 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
" 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
" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "
Sturgill Simpson
Sunday
Up
Playing
" 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