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" 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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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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" You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive. "

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" Saviours get crucified. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Music Row gets dragged through the dirt, but they're just trying to survive. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows. "

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

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