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" 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
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" 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
Know
Music
Rock
" 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
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
War
Home
Son
" 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
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Success
Work
People
" 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
Like
" I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job. "
Sturgill Simpson
Could
Railroad
Liked
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Will
Career
End
" I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary. "
Sturgill Simpson
Had
Salary
Railroad
" I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "
Sturgill Simpson
Grateful
" 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
" 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
Find
Go
Internet
" I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead of 26 because I - I'm just such a homebody, and I just want to write songs and make the best record that I can. "
Sturgill Simpson
I Can
Time
Want
" All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts. "
Sturgill Simpson
Serving
Interested
Musically
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Sit
Things
Always
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Talk
Song
People
" 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
Like
" That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was. "
Sturgill Simpson
Heart
Family
Dedication
" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "
Sturgill Simpson
Religious
Particularly
Kentucky
" I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Always
Know
" 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
" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "
Sturgill Simpson
Might
Records
Right
" It's a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I'll take it, though. "
Sturgill Simpson
Moving Forward
Long
Road
" Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians. "
Sturgill Simpson
Mother
Brother
Both
" 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
Creative
Time
Media
" 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
You
Me
Say
" I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016. "
Sturgill Simpson
How
See
Fail
" 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
" 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 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
Beautiful
Want
Pretty