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.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.