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 Copy Share Image
Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse.… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
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… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I needed a writing space to get out of my house with the little guy. Because any time I try to write or sit… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
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… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right? — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere.… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so I try… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share
