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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "

" 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. "

" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

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

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

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

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" 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 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

" Saviours get crucified. "

Sturgill Simpson

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

Sturgill Simpson

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "