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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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" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

" There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record. "

" 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. "