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

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" 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. "

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" 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

" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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. "

Sturgill Simpson