Dwight YoakamWe 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… ▶371Death
Dwight YoakamI 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 … ▶316Sadness
Dwight YoakamIn 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 … ▶241ThoughtTime
Dwight YoakamQuality 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… ▶308PoliticsTime
Dwight YoakamBut 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.264Time
Dwight YoakamIt's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.265Truth
Dwight YoakamI 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 eati… ▶3110Time
Dwight YoakamI 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.248ThoughtTime
Dwight YoakamIn 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.2610HopeTime
Dwight YoakamI 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 Co… ▶186HumanityLife
Dwight YoakamMy guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.155Philosophy
Dwight YoakamIronically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.136Life
Dwight YoakamI tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.149Sadness
