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" 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

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Sturgill Simpson

Honest

Will

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

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

" I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. "

Sturgill Simpson

Sunday

Playing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Internet

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" Saviours get crucified. "

Sturgill Simpson

Crucified

Get

" 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 grateful to all the non-risk-takers. "

Sturgill Simpson

Grateful

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