Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
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 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
