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.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.