I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something… — 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 Beautiful 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 Home Copy Share Image
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 Image
Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers,… — Sturgill Simpson Communication Copy Share Image
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love. — Sturgill Simpson Love Copy Share Image
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of… — Sturgill Simpson Creative energy 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
It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in… — Sturgill Simpson Aikido Copy Share Image
I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd… — Sturgill Simpson City Copy Share Image
The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes… — Sturgill Simpson Every night 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 Country Copy Share Image
Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't… — Sturgill Simpson Life Copy Share Image
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and… — Sturgill Simpson Army Copy Share Image
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 Focused Copy Share Image
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
Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head… — 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'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be. — Sturgill Simpson Country music Copy Share Image
There are no expectations other than those I place on myself to be a great father and husband. — Sturgill Simpson Expectations 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 Being Copy Share Image
I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and… — Sturgill Simpson Country Copy Share Image
You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the… — Sturgill Simpson Drive Copy Share Image
I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
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… — Sturgill Simpson Debut Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a… — 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 Country Copy Share Image
I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and… — Sturgill Simpson Country Copy Share Image
