I didn’t have any expectations with ‘Traveller’ – I don’t think anybody did. That’s how I prefer the process to be. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That’s what I lived for. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn’t really know how to do much of that. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
It’s man’s work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it – he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
Everybody likes to listen to a song because it’s fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to ‘I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics’ songs all the time. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
I want the dude in the top row to feel like he’s down there on the front row in a club. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
I think, at some point, all of us – I’m gonna speak personally, not for everybody else – you’re gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it’s a really good trick, everybody’s still gonna appreciate it. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
It’s nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
I’m a fan of records. I’m a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything. Chris Stapleton Read Quote
