Quotes from Dwight Yoakam

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

Control success before it controls you.

I say love, it knows no season. It haunts the soul eternally.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.