Quotes from Dwight Yoakam

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.