Sturgill Simpson told : "This should be the most fun job on the planet,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "When you get in the studio that's where musicians are supposed to geek out,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I had the 'rona, that sucked," "I lost some friends. That sucked even more. There was a couple of years where I really didn't enjoy it. I was in a dark headspace. Being on the road with the guys I was playing with at the time, and embracing that, is what got me through it"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I was like, 'now I have time to do what I really love, which is make records,'" "I got my ownership and control back and it really all just breathed life into it"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "It's fresh in my mind, I'm excited about it," "Why would you not want to share (new music) with your fans as soon as possible? Whether I ever was or not, mainstream or that kind-of thing isn't in the cards. I'm not serving those models. A Billboard No. 1 or those kind-of things aren't important goals for me any more. It's really about moving forward"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "Seeing Marty's process in terms of trimming fat,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "It's a real simple tale of love and revenge but, to me, the music was taking it as far back to my family and cultural roots as far as I could,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "You want the whole record to sonically be cohesive," "That's something I love about making records, trying to start-to-finish make something that feels like it was born out of the same moment"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "to the light and love and family and absolution,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "Even when we're out there I felt really irresponsible about it,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I feel like the last 10 years have been amazing but my bucket list is pretty checked off," "I wrote the albums I've written because I lived 36 years before I made 'em. I feel like I wanna go do some living and some other challenges"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I'm just at a point where I don't want to do it unless I got something to say and I'm really excited about it,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I'll put it this way, if I go back into the studio it'll be because I thought of the complete and total reinvention that gets me excited," "But it won't be my name. I'm done with that all that"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "Welp, turns out I did in fact unfortunately hemorrhage/ rupture my vocal chords after all. I am currently getting the best treatment available and should fully recover but its gonna be a long hot minute before I can return to the stage,"

upi Thursday, September 30, 2021 9:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "These are how these songs were originally written and I decided — after climbing the ropes of country music stardom and completely destroying that career to make a rock 'n' roll record — I have great ambitions of a life of gravel lots and Porta Potties. I'm gonna be a bluegrass musician,"

usaToday Monday, December 21, 2020 11:04:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "As a show of appreciation for your efforts I will be performing a one hour live stream concert as promised THIS FRIDAY EVENING,"

upi Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:33:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson wrote : “I spent an hour listening to a (highly condescending) Doctor refuse to test me because I ‘did not fit testing criteria’ and tell me why it was impossible that I had contracted the virus due to its extreme rarity and that it was not in western Europe yet during that same period (which we now know is incorrect) even though I was told by two nurses that I was the first person their hospital had walk in requesting to be tested,”

dailycaller Tuesday, April 14, 2020 3:04:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson wrote : “All I know is I first felt symptoms a month ago yet Im still positive and contagious and now on quarantine in the dojo until April 19th and really wishing Id taken my wife’s advice and put a bathroom in the floor plans..live and learn,” “But hey, at least our Government appointed task force headed by a man who does not believe in science is against mass testing and we now have a second task force in the works to ‘open America back up for business’! Dick Daddy out”

dailycaller Tuesday, April 14, 2020 3:04:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson says : “When we pulled up and saw Squirrell, I’ve got to admit I got a little worried,”

wkyt Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:22:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “I could’ve very easily probably made the same record five times by now and just gone right down that middle lane and played it safe, and I’d have $80 million in the bank,”

nytimes Friday, September 20, 2019 8:26:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson explained : “I had this idea that it’d be really cool to animate some of these songs, and we ended up with a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, samurai film,”

themalaymailonline Monday, July 22, 2019 5:26:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “Musically when I open my mouth, it’s going to be a country song,” “But I listen to everything except country music these days in my life. I am trying to encapsulate and incorporate a lot of those elements and also push my understanding of what a country album could be”

arabtimes Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said ( about Merle Haggard ) : “He had a very elastic flexibility as a musician and also a fearlessness,” “Merle made a career out of doing what Merle wanted to do. That was a huge influence and gave me a lot of courage, not only as a musician but as a human being just because sitting and talking to him, he would say things that most people would never say out aloud out of fear of how it might make them look. But with him there was no filter”

arabtimes Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “This to me tells me that we’re just going to reach a lot more people and it tells me that I have reached a lot more people than I was even aware of,” “And that’s so amazing and humbling. It’s insane”

arabtimes Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “You can’t put a price tag on what you’ve given to the world,”

bostonglobe Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:38:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “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,”

timescolonist Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:56:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “I thought it was hilarious when Brace for Impact [a song on A Sailor’s Guide to Earth] was released and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel,” “If anything, that tells me I’m making progress”

timescolonist Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:56:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson told : "This should be the most fun job on the planet,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "When you get in the studio that's where musicians are supposed to geek out,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I had the 'rona, that sucked," "I lost some friends. That sucked even more. There was a couple of years where I really didn't enjoy it. I was in a dark headspace. Being on the road with the guys I was playing with at the time, and embracing that, is what got me through it"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I was like, 'now I have time to do what I really love, which is make records,'" "I got my ownership and control back and it really all just breathed life into it"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "It's fresh in my mind, I'm excited about it," "Why would you not want to share (new music) with your fans as soon as possible? Whether I ever was or not, mainstream or that kind-of thing isn't in the cards. I'm not serving those models. A Billboard No. 1 or those kind-of things aren't important goals for me any more. It's really about moving forward"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "Seeing Marty's process in terms of trimming fat,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "It's a real simple tale of love and revenge but, to me, the music was taking it as far back to my family and cultural roots as far as I could,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "You want the whole record to sonically be cohesive," "That's something I love about making records, trying to start-to-finish make something that feels like it was born out of the same moment"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "to the light and love and family and absolution,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "Even when we're out there I felt really irresponsible about it,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I feel like the last 10 years have been amazing but my bucket list is pretty checked off," "I wrote the albums I've written because I lived 36 years before I made 'em. I feel like I wanna go do some living and some other challenges"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I'm just at a point where I don't want to do it unless I got something to say and I'm really excited about it,"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "I'll put it this way, if I go back into the studio it'll be because I thought of the complete and total reinvention that gets me excited," "But it won't be my name. I'm done with that all that"

usaToday Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:35:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "Welp, turns out I did in fact unfortunately hemorrhage/ rupture my vocal chords after all. I am currently getting the best treatment available and should fully recover but its gonna be a long hot minute before I can return to the stage,"

upi Thursday, September 30, 2021 9:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "These are how these songs were originally written and I decided — after climbing the ropes of country music stardom and completely destroying that career to make a rock 'n' roll record — I have great ambitions of a life of gravel lots and Porta Potties. I'm gonna be a bluegrass musician,"

usaToday Monday, December 21, 2020 11:04:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : "As a show of appreciation for your efforts I will be performing a one hour live stream concert as promised THIS FRIDAY EVENING,"

upi Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:33:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson wrote : “I spent an hour listening to a (highly condescending) Doctor refuse to test me because I ‘did not fit testing criteria’ and tell me why it was impossible that I had contracted the virus due to its extreme rarity and that it was not in western Europe yet during that same period (which we now know is incorrect) even though I was told by two nurses that I was the first person their hospital had walk in requesting to be tested,”

dailycaller Tuesday, April 14, 2020 3:04:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson wrote : “All I know is I first felt symptoms a month ago yet Im still positive and contagious and now on quarantine in the dojo until April 19th and really wishing Id taken my wife’s advice and put a bathroom in the floor plans..live and learn,” “But hey, at least our Government appointed task force headed by a man who does not believe in science is against mass testing and we now have a second task force in the works to ‘open America back up for business’! Dick Daddy out”

dailycaller Tuesday, April 14, 2020 3:04:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson says : “When we pulled up and saw Squirrell, I’ve got to admit I got a little worried,”

wkyt Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:22:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “I could’ve very easily probably made the same record five times by now and just gone right down that middle lane and played it safe, and I’d have $80 million in the bank,”

nytimes Friday, September 20, 2019 8:26:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson explained : “I had this idea that it’d be really cool to animate some of these songs, and we ended up with a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, samurai film,”

themalaymailonline Monday, July 22, 2019 5:26:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “Musically when I open my mouth, it’s going to be a country song,” “But I listen to everything except country music these days in my life. I am trying to encapsulate and incorporate a lot of those elements and also push my understanding of what a country album could be”

arabtimes Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said ( about Merle Haggard ) : “He had a very elastic flexibility as a musician and also a fearlessness,” “Merle made a career out of doing what Merle wanted to do. That was a huge influence and gave me a lot of courage, not only as a musician but as a human being just because sitting and talking to him, he would say things that most people would never say out aloud out of fear of how it might make them look. But with him there was no filter”

arabtimes Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “This to me tells me that we’re just going to reach a lot more people and it tells me that I have reached a lot more people than I was even aware of,” “And that’s so amazing and humbling. It’s insane”

arabtimes Thursday, December 8, 2016 5:34:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “You can’t put a price tag on what you’ve given to the world,”

bostonglobe Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:38:00 AM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “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,”

timescolonist Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:56:00 PM EAT

Sturgill Simpson said : “I thought it was hilarious when Brace for Impact [a song on A Sailor’s Guide to Earth] was released and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel,” “If anything, that tells me I’m making progress”

timescolonist Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:56:00 PM EAT