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. — Dwight Yoakam

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. — Dwight Yoakam

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

I don’t regret any of the musical decisions I have made. — Dwight Yoakam

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

It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music–clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. — 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. — Dwight Yoakam

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on. — Dwight Yoakam

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It’s really, truly, rural white America’s blues. — Dwight Yoakam

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

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. — Dwight Yoakam

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. — Dwight Yoakam

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. — Dwight Yoakam

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. — Dwight Yoakam

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. — Dwight Yoakam

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

I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I’m a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit. — Dwight Yoakam

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. — Dwight Yoakam