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" 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

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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

Honest

Will

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

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

" I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. "

" I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My wife thinks I'm crazy. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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

Isolation

Opportunity

" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "

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

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

" Saviours get crucified. "

Sturgill Simpson

Crucified

Get

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

" Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it. "

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

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

" 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

" 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 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 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. "