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.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.