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" 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

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" I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that. "

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" 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.' "

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

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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 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" Saviours get crucified. "

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

" 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

" 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

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

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

" I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

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

" 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

" 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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