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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. "

Sturgill Simpson

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. "

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" 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

" 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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties. "

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" 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

" 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

" 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

" 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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" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? "

Sturgill Simpson

" I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was a mile away from the stage, and I swear to God, I could feel her energy. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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 love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything. "

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" I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly. "

Sturgill Simpson

" 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

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

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" Kentucky isn't particularly religious. "

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