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" I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter. "
Sturgill Simpson
Just
Hate
People
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" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Myself
Building
Guitar
" 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
" 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
" The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that's free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don't want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations. "
Sturgill Simpson
Love
Family
Myself
" 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 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 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
Me
Writing
Time
" 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
Result
Never
Know
" 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
" 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 tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. "
Sturgill Simpson
Cut
Country
Tried
" 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'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. "
Sturgill Simpson
Myself
Never
Sound
" You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. "
Sturgill Simpson
You
Time
Thinking
" 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'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
Media
Who
Music
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "
Sturgill Simpson
Father
Expectations
Myself
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
Say
Country
People
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music. "
Sturgill Simpson
Music
Life
My Life
" 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. "
Sturgill Simpson
London
Kind
Irish