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.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.