Sturgill Simpson

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.

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.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.