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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "

" I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. "

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

" Saviours get crucified. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

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

Sturgill Simpson

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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" 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

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" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night. "