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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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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Say

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Grateful

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music. "

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

" I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope. "

" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "

" 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. "

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

" I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore. "

" 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

Writing

Time

" 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

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

" 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

Everything

Where

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

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

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

" I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her. "

Sturgill Simpson

Navy

Really