Top 71 Quotes by Sturgill Simpson

Saviours get crucified.

I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

That might be completely self-indulgent, to write your first major-label debut as a dedication to your family. But, you know, that's where my heart was.

I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

Some people will say, and have said, that I'm trying to run from country, but I'm never going to make anything other than a country record.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.