I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky…

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

— Dwight Yoakam

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're…

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Dwight Yoakam

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a…

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Dwight Yoakam

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Dwight Yoakam

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those…

— Dwight Yoakam

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very…

— Dwight Yoakam

The future has a lot to do with the past.

— Dwight Yoakam

I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he…

— Dwight Yoakam

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster…

— 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…

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Dwight Yoakam

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some…

— Dwight Yoakam