I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.
From Sturgill Simpson
Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'
I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.
I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?
I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.
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