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" I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her. "
Sturgill Simpson
Navy
Up
Really
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" 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. "
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Who
Music
" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "
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Trying
Dirt
Music
" 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. "
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Me
Writing
Time
" 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. "
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Country
People
" 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. "
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Will
Career
End
" Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.' "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Way
Tell
" I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do. "
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Want
Three
Like
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Soul
Three
Good
" I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "
Sturgill Simpson
Band
Everything
Love
" Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. "
Sturgill Simpson
Back
Music
Work
" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
Sturgill Simpson
How
See
Fail
" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
Sturgill Simpson
Just
Hate
People
" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
Sturgill Simpson
Might
Records
Right
" 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
Dirt
Country
You
" 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
Sit
Three
Write
" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "
Sturgill Simpson
Short
Love
Film
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Song
Thought
Progress
" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
Sturgill Simpson
Had
Salary
Railroad
" 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
Focus
People
Music
" 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
Me
" I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
Sturgill Simpson
Myself
Never
Sound
" 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
Love
Good
Life
" 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
You
Down
Hometown
" 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
You
Want
Look
" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "
Sturgill Simpson
Religious
Particularly
Kentucky
" 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
Hearts
Write
Broken
" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
Sturgill Simpson
Could
Railroad
Liked
" 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
Studying
Time
Day
" 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
Said
Talk
Know
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Get
Curious
Anything