I came out of the hotel in the parking lot and all the guys were out there and I was like, ‘I wrote this song, it’s pretty cool.’ And I started singing it to them, and they all looked at me like I was bat shit crazy.” And I wrote it down and I remember coming out … I’ll never forget this. And I had to literally like jump out of the shower and I slipped. It was right before we were going to check out and leave.
“I almost killed myself getting out of the shower to write it down. “I remember we were doing our first tour, somewhere probably like a Red Roof Inn or Howard Johnson’s,” Sturgill explains. This reminded Sturgill of how he came to write “Turtles All The Way Down.” It was a matter of what do you leave out?” You get one really good verse, and it would make you write the next verse right on through. “Do you think looking back at the ones that did get finished are the ones that took about 20 minutes or 30 minutes?” Sturgill then asked Prine. Otherwise you feel like you’re finishing somebody else’s song.” I could finish this any old time.’ Where the song starts from, you gotta stick with it ’cause it’s really tough to finish. If somebody sticks their head in the window and says, ‘Hey, let’s go get a hot dog,’ I’m like ‘That’s great. “I try to always remember that, and I don’t. “Especially if you leave the song and try to go back to it. The method of writing “Turtles All The Way Down” came up in a discussion about the challenges of writing songs and finishing them. between Sturgill Simpson and John Prine on Tuesday evening (6-23). This was one of the revelations that came out of a Q&A about songwriting that took place at the Grammy Museum in L.A.
It was in a motel shower where Sturgill Simpson found the inspiration for what has gone on to become one of his most signature and iconic songs, and he almost injured himself rushing out of the shower to jot it down.
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